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Rivers

Natural Earth Rivers and Lake Centerlines

Natural Earth physical vectors. Cartographic river lines at 1:10m, 1:50m and 1:110m.

Generalised river lines drawn for maps, with names in many languages and a scale rank for choosing which rivers to show at each zoom. Supplementary 1:10m files add more rivers in North America and Europe. The river layer on this site's map comes from the 1:10m file.

Source
Natural Earth
Resolution
1:10 million to 1:110 million
Data type
Lines
Time span
Static (v5)
Temporal
Static
Access type
Direct download (external)
Formats
Shapefile
Coverage
Global (-180, -90, 180, 90)
Licence
Public domain
Provider page
www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-physical-vectors/10m…

Access

filesNatural Earth river shapefiles

curl -fsSL "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/natural-earth-rivers/links.txt?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5" \
  | xargs -n 1 curl -fLO

Also available as JSON: links · manifest · dataset record