While theNileand theAmazonrivers get a lot of credit for being the foresightful river and the world ’s largest river by water loudness , severally , there are still plenty of titles to lay claim across the sleep of planet Earth ’s mighty watercourse .
The oldest river in the mankind is the subject of some debate , but is largely agreed to be theFinke River , which is also known as the Larapinta by Indigenous community in Australia . The river flows only a few times a yr after weighed down rainfall and extend around 600 - 750 kilometre ( 372 - 466 miles ) to its release at Lake Eyre . intend to be around 350 to 400 million age older , the Finke river has its reservoir in the MacDonnell Ranges in the Northern Territory of Australia . autochthonic legend state the narration that the river was formed when the Rainbow Serpent went north from Lake Eyre .
It is extremely difficult to work out out the exact age of a river , especially over period of extended geological time . Scientists and geologists can probe the smother ecological features , mountain ranges , and count at theriverbedsediment , as well as the " meanders " – features of the river line itself that have change the landscape painting due to C of million yr of erosion . Even after considering all these features and more , it is not unusual to have wide - ranging estimates of age that span large sentence periods .
The quondam river in North America is think to be the bewilderingly named New River , which run approximately 547 kilometers ( 340 miles ) from the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina into Virginia and West Virginia , where it finally joins the Kanawha River . Estimates for the old age of this river vary wide but most suggest it to be between 10 and 360 million years quondam . According to astudy , this river was labeled the “ 2d erstwhile river in the world ” during a 1970s advertising campaign to prevent the river from being dammed .
Across the pond , the onetime river in Europe is thought to be the Meuse , which run 950 kilometer ( 590 Roman mile ) through three countries : Belgium and The Netherlands , from its starting level in France . This river is estimated to be 320 to 340 million years old .
Our understand of river formations is not an exact science , so more scientific evidence could come to light that changes the age of these river and sheds more Christ Within on their formation millions of years ago .
