This list of rivers of Chile includes all the major rivers of Chile. See each article for their tributaries, drainage areas, etc. Usually significant tributaries appear in this list, under the river into which they drain.
Following lists show the information of GeoNames ordered by names:
The lists of rivers by region are:
This list contains:
Among all the features recorded in the GeoNames database, Wikipedia has arbitrarily selected for these lists features named "Rio", "Rio", "Canal", "Arroyo", "Estero", "Riachuelo" and they must contain one of following Feature Codes (explained in [2]):
Note: The rivers are ordered by the latitude of their outflows into the ocean, lakes, other rivers or out of Chile respectively.
Note: The rivers are ordered by their drainage basin area within Chile.
Rank | Name | Basin area | Length |
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1 | Loa River | 33,570 km²[1] | 440 km[1] |
2 | Baker River[3] | 26,726 km² | 170 km |
3 | Bío-Bío River | 24,264 km²[2] | 380 km[2] |
4 | Maule River | 20,600 km²[3] | 240 km[3] |
5 | Bueno River | 15,367 km²[4] | 130 km[4] |
6 | Maipo River | 15,304 km²[5] | 250 km[5] |
7 | Pascua River | 14,760 km² | 62 km[citation needed] |
8 | Rapel River1 | 13,695 km² [6] | 167 km[7] |
9 | Imperial River | 12.763 km²[8] | 55 km[8] |
10 | Limarí River | 11,800 km²[7] | 64 km[7] |
11 | Aysén River | 11,427 km²[9] | 26 km[9] |
12 | Copiapó River | 11,400 km²[10] | 162 km[10] |
13 | Itata River | 11,294 km²[11] | 140 km[11] |
14 | Valdivia River2 | 10,275 km²[12] | 140 km[12] |
Notes: