List of unusual drainage systems
The following is a list of unusual drainage systems such as those without a single outlet.
List
Bifurcation rivers (active)
- The Casiquiare canal - natural waterway connecting the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers.
- Tärendö River - in Sweden
- The Chicago River artificially diverts water from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi.
- The Echimamish River in Canada connects the Hayes and Nelson Rivers and was much used as a shortcut by voyageurs.
- The Nerodimka (river) flows into the Aegean and Black Seas.
Bifurcation rivers (extinct)
- The Chu River in Kyrgyzstan flows east to within a few miles of Lake Issyk-Kul, makes a hairpin turn, and flows west without entering the lake.
- The Manych River east of the Black Sea formerly flowed both east and west.
Bifurcation lakes
- The artificial Gatun Lake in Panama drains into the Atlantic and Pacific.
- Isa Lake in Yellowstone National Park drains to the Atlantic and Pacific.
- At the summit of Simpson Pass in the Canadian Rockies is a small lake, the Committee's Punch Bowl, that drains both east and west.
- Wollaston Lake is a bifurcation lake that drains northwest to the Arctic Ocean and northeast to Hudson Bay.
- Lake Diefenbaker - in Canada
- Inhottu - in Finland
- Isojärvi (Satakunta) - in Finland
- Kivesjärvi - in Finland
- Kuolimo - in Finland
- Lummene - in Finland
- Vehkajärvi - in Finland
- Vesijako - in Finland
Other unusual systems
- Lake Vostok is a subglacial lake beneath the Antarctic ice cap.
- Bahr Yussef - in Egypt
See also
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