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Takahara River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Takahara River (Takahara-gawa) has its source at Mount Norikura in the northern part of Gifu Prefecture, Japan, and flows into Toyama Prefecture, where it joins with the Jinzū River. It is a Class 1 River. The river was polluted with cadmium due to mining at the Kamioka mines (Kamioka Kōzan) and caused the itai-itai disease outbreak in downstream towns that began shortly before World War II.

Flows through: Japan.

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

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