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Alte Elbe

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

Alte Elbe (lit. Old Elbe) is the German name for oxbows of the Elbe, i.e. cut-off meanders. With about 20 km (12 mi) the largest one of these is the Dornburger Alte Elbe, a river of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It branches of the Elbe near Dornburg, a district of Gommern. It flows into the Elbe at Magdeburg.

Flows through: Germany.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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