Great Rivers of the World Posters
for social studies and science educators and home schoolers.

Rivers are narrow bodies of fresh water that follow a path and erode away the land they flow over creating land forms such as deltas, canyons and valleys. Rivers were the first great pathways of humanity and we can study civilizations by exploring waterways today.

Rainbow over Amazon Rain Forest Giclee Print, Nat'l Geo.

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• South America posters

Colorado River,
Grand Canyon Fine Art Print

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• national parks posters
• Francisco Coronado poster

Together the Tigres and Euphrates Rivers formed the natural borders for a region that was a "cradle" for Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria civilizations. The Greeks called the area Mesopotamia, literally "between the rivers".

The Tigres and Euphrates Rivers are part of the "Fertile Crescent", an historic Middle East region that corresponds to present-day Egypt, Israel, West Bank, Gaza strip, and Lebanon and parts of Jordan, Syria, Iraq, southeastern Turkey and southwestern Iran.

Candles Streak Waters of the Ganges during Dawali Festival, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, Giclee Print
about one in every 12 people on Earth (8.5% of world population) live in the catchment area of the Ganges - Wikipedia

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• India posters
• Hindu Religion & Philosophy posters

Palisades Along the Hudson River Art Print
Palisades are a line of steep cliffs ranging in height between 350-550 ft., near NYC.

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• New Jersey posters
• Henry Hudson Explorer poster

The Indus River, the longest river and the third largest river, in terms of annual flow, in the Asian subcontinent, has been the site of human habitation since the Paleolitic era. The Indus River rises in Tibet and flows through Pakistan's "breadbasket".

• Ancient India poster

Cormorant fisherman on the Li River, Photographic Print

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• China posters
• birds posters

Mekong River, Vietnam War / LIFE Cover: January 13, 1967
Larry Burrows

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• Vietnam War posters

Mississippi River Delta from Space Art Print

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• Astronomy/Earth posters
• Louisiana posters

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, George Caleb Bingham

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• State of Missouri posters

Lewis & Clark on the Lower Columbia Poster, Charles M. Russell

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• Lewis & Clark posters

Niger River, the 3rd longest river in Africa (2600 miles or 4180 km), is the principal river of western Africa. The Niger extends through Guinea, Mali, Niger, is part of the border with Benin, then through Nigeria, and discharges through the massive Niger Delta into the Gulf of Guinea (Atlantic Ocean).

FYI - the Niger Delta area was also known as the Oil Rivers because of the cultivation of oil palm tree, the source of an edible oil that was also an important component in personal care products (Palmolive soap) and industrial lubricant in the Industrial Revolution. Today the Niger River Delta is the site of 75% of Nigeria's petroleum production, Africa's largest producer.

• Ways of the Rivers: Arts and Environemt of the Niger Delta

The Nile River is generally considered the longest river in the world (6,695 km or 4,180 mi), flowing northward from east central Africa to its delta in the Mediterrean Sea.

• Egypt posters

Potomac, Washington, DC from Space

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• Earth from Space
• cities posters

Ansel Adams (1902-1984), renowned nature photographer, was also a staunch champion of wilderness preservation who impacted environmentalism through his legendary and awe-inspiring photographs.

• National Parks posters

The River Seine, Paris

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• France posters

The Saint Lawrence River runs 744 miles (1,197 km) from Lake Ontario to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the world's largest estuary. The river drains 390,000 sq mi from the Mesabi Range in the state of Minnesota to the Atlantic Ocean, including the Great Lakes. The St. Lawrence forms a part of the international border between Canada and New York State.

The River Thames, which has supported human activity for milleninia, rises in the west-central Cotswold Hills and flows through southern England emptying to the North Sea at the Thames Estuary, the world's second largest tidal movement.

Because the Thames is a tidal river, London is under the threat of severe flooding when the conditions of weather and high tide push water up the Thames from the sea. On December 7, 1663 Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary, 'There was last night the greatest tide that was ever was remembered in England to have been in this River, all Whitehall having been drowned.'

The Thames Tunnel, engineered by Marc Brunel, was the world's first underwater tunnel.

• Earth from Space posters
• cities posters

The Yangtze in China, the longest river in Asia, has seen human activity in the Three Gorges area as far back as 27,000 years ago. The Yangtze experiences major flooding and is very polluted.

China's Yellow River, the 6th longest river in Asia, is called the "the cradle of Chinese civilization". The Yellow River has frequent devastating flooding, and has earned the name "China's Sorrow".

• grain / food posters

Zanskar River, Himalayas

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• Buddhism posters
• mountain posters
• Asia posters

The River System and Estuaries Near the Gulf of Carpenteria, Queensland, Australia Giclee Print

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• more Australia posters

Hydrosphere: Water Environments Poster

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• more ecosphere posters
• aquatic creatures posters