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Carron Water, Dumfriesshire

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Carron Water (Scottish Gaelic: Carrann) is a tributary of the River Nith in southwest Scotland. It rises in the Dalveen Pass in the Lowther Hills as its headwater streams, the Dinabid Linn, Dalveen Lane and Lavern Burn join to flow southwards, to the west of the village of Durisdeer, to meet the Nith at Carronbridge.

Flows through: United Kingdom.

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

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