Kuma River (Japan)

View of the River

The Kuma (Japanese球磨 川, -gawa ) is a river in Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū in Japan.

It is 115 km long and has a catchment area of ​​1880 km ². Its average discharge at the mouth is 103.98 m³ / s He is, together with the Mogami and the Fuji one of the three fastest rivers in Japan.

The Kuma is a popular Inspection location for tourists annually make about 70,000 people a ride on the river. In Kuma is used (mainly in June ), and it is used for irrigation of nearby rice fields and fished. It flows at Yatsushiro in the Yatsushiro Sea.