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North American Rivers, 1:10 million (2012)

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Title
North American Rivers, 1:10 million (2012)
Description
This polyline shapefile depicts single-line drainages for rivers in North America only ranked by relative importance. Includes name and line width attributes for creating tapered drainages. River data is derived from the North American Environmental Atlas, a collaboration of government agencies in Canada, Mexico and the United States and the trilateral Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). Headwaters of some CEC rivers were clipped slightly downstream to provide visual separation with other river headwaters and to avoid the crests of ridges on the shaded relief. These data are represented at 1:10,000,000 scale. This layer is part of the Natural Earth Collection (v.2.0.0)., Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10, 1:50 and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.
Creator
Patterson, Tom, Kelso, Nathaniel Vaughn
Publisher
North American Cartographic Information Society
Subject
Rivers, Inland Waters
Temporal Coverage
2012
Date Issued
2012
Rights
This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use.
Rights Holder
This work is in the Public Domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright.
Access Rights
Public
Format
Shapefile
Language
English
Date Added
October 01, 2025

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  • Citation
    Patterson, Tom, Kelso, Nathaniel Vaughn (2012). North American Rivers, 1:10 million (2012). North American Cartographic Information Society. (dataset)
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