Tenryū River
The Tenryu (Japanese天 竜 川, -gawa, dt "river of the sky dragon " ) is a river on the main Japanese island of Honshu. He is with a length of 213 km is the ninth longest river in Japan. He has a water volume of 135m ³ average / s and covers a total area of 5090 km ².
The source of the Tenryu is the Suwa Lake in Nagano Prefecture. On his way to the Pacific Ocean, it flows through the prefecture next to its source nor the prefectures of Aichi and Shizuoka.
Geography
In the field of Okaya city of Tenryu arises as the only outflow of Lake Suwa. From the district town in the district of Tatsuno kamiina it flows through the Ina Basin, is responsible for its emergence it in the geomorphological point of view. After it has passed through a part of Aichi Prefecture, he continues to flow through the Shizuoka Prefecture and flows on the border of the cities of Hamamatsu and Iwata in the Pacific Ocean. Due to the unpredictability of the Tenryu the shore with seawalls are protected. Since early times the Tenryu was also called "Mad River " ( Abare -gawa ).
Course of the river
The Tenryu flows through the following places:
- Nagano Prefecture Okaya
- County kamiina Tatsuno
- Minowa
- Minamiminowa
- Miyada
- Iijima
- Nakagawa
- Matsukawa
- Takamori
- Toyooka
- Takagi
- Shimojo
- Yasuoka
- Anan
- Tenryu
- County Kitashitara Toyone
- Hamamatsu
- Iwata