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Kumano River

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River in Japan

Kumano River
Kumano River at Shingū, Wakayama

Native name	熊野川 (Japanese)
Location
Country	Japan
Physical characteristics

Source
• location	Mount Ōmine
• elevation	1,719 m (5,640 ft)

Mouth
• location	Pacific Ocean
• elevation	0 m (0 ft)
Length	183 km (114 mi)
Basin size	2,360 km² (910 sq mi)

Discharge
• average	119.2 m³/s (4,210 cu ft/s)

TheKumano River (熊野川,Kumanogawa) is ariver in theKii Peninsula of centralJapan, located inNara,Wakayama andMie Prefectures. It is 183 kilometres (114 mi) long and has awatershed of 2,630 square kilometres (1,020 sq mi).^[1]

The river rises fromMount Ōmine in theYoshino-Kumano National Park inTenkawa, Nara and follows a generally southward course to drain into thePacific Ocean on the border betweenShingū, Wakayama andKihō, Mie. The river is part of theSacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range, aUNESCO World Heritage Site which incorporates nature scenery of the Kii peninsula with numerousBuddhist temples andShinto shrines forming a pilgrimage route.

Municipalities through which the river passes are:

There are eleven dams in the Kumano basin for generation ofhydropower. Five of these are on the Kumano itself (from source to mouth):^[2]

The other six dams are on tributaries of the Kumano.

Campbell, Alan. editor (1993).Japan:An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha.ISBN 406205938X.{{cite book}}:|first= has generic name (help)

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^Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs (1961).Japan statistical yearbook, Vol.12. Nihon Tōkei Kyōkai.
^Kobayashi, Yuzo (2022)."Study on PMP estimation for the flood risk evaluation of hydropower dams in consideration of the future climate change"(PDF).

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