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Miyara River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

Miyara River (Yaeyama: Mēra-kāra, Miyara-gawa) is the biggest natural fresh water river of Ishigaki Island located in Okinawa Prefecture of Japan. The river is popular for the mangroves forest on both its banks which houses various wild birds and butterflies.

Flows through: Japan.

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

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