Chitose River
The 883rd longest river in the world
Chitose River (Chitose-gawa) is a river in Hokkaidō, Japan. The river is a class A river. In the city of Ebetsu, the river is sometimes known as Ebetsu River (Ebetsu-gawa). In the Ainu language Chitose was originally called shikot, meaning big depression or hollow, like Lake Shikotsu a caldera lake. To the Japanese, this sounded too much like dead bones (shikotsu), so it was changed to Chitose. The name of the river was changed in 1805.
Flows through: Japan.
River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.