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3°E 4°E 5°E 6°E 7°E 8°E 9°E 10°E 11°E 12°E International Rhine River Basin District Types of lakes e Report Part A Big, deep, high-lime and layered type of lake of the e K 4 Surface water bodies Alpine Rhine z Types of water bodies Moderate and shallow buffered lake type of the d Delta Rhine Rhine river basin district Big and deep buffered lake type of the Delta Rhine N ° r 3 State frontiers 5 No definition of type as yet o Federal boundaries Types of main stream N ° 3 o NL Limit of the 1-mile-zone 5 Elongated type of the Alpine Rhine (Rhine km 0 - 8.9) Towns Branched type of the Alpine Rhine (Rhine km 8.9 – 80) N IJsselmeer Outlet type of the Alpine Rhine (Rhine km 80 - 93) V e c Outlet of lake type of the High Rhine (Rhine km 24 – 45) h l t DE e Narrow valley type of the Hihg Rhine (Rhine km 45 - 170) e s Amsterdam s Furcation type of the Upper Rhine (Rhine km 170 – 290) J I N Den Haag Meander type of the Upper Rhine (Rhine km 290 – 529) ° 2 5 Rotterdam Narrow valley type of the Middle Rhine Nederrijn/Lek (Rhine km 529 – 639) N ° 2 Type of the Lower Rhine characterized by uplands 5 Wa al (Rhine km 639 – 701) Lippe Type of the Lower Rhine with few side waters (Rhine km 701 – 775) Dortmund Type of the Lower Rhine with many side waters Duisburg Essen R (Rhine km 775 – 865,5) u h r Type of the Delta Rhine with many side waters Düsseldorf Freshwater-tidal water type of the Delta Rhine N ° 1 5 Types of transitional waters Köln N Estuary type of the Delta Rhine ° 1 5 Sieg Types of coastal waters Wadden Sea type of the Delta Rhine R Open sea zone type of the Delta Rhine W (BE) h e in L n a h aale e S ch N is ° Frankfurt a. M. k 0 n 5 Wiesbaden rä F N Sauer ° el 0 s 5 o R M Mainz e e g h ain n LU a M i t Luxembourg N z Types of tributaries (> 2 500 km²) Water course of the late moraine of the S a Alpine headlans a N r e c Siliceous upland brooks rich in k Saarbrücken a fine material r DE N ° Siliceous upland brooks rich in lle Metz 9 e 4 s bulky material o M N Siliceous upland brooks rich in ° 9 fine to bulky material 4 Carbonado containing upland brooks Stuttgart rich in fine material FR S Carbonado containing upland brooks a M r Strasbourg rich in bulky material e re ur th Carbonado containing upland brooks e rich in fine to bulky material Ill n Big upland rivers i h N ° Rivers characterized by gravel R 8 4 > 10 000 km² Lowland rivers characterized by N ° 8 sand and silt 4 Lowland brooks characterized by gravel Small lowland water courses in the river Bodensee and stream valleys Rhein No type assignment Basel Zürich 1 cm = 23 km (A3) Bregenz in e h r N ° e ar n 7 0 15 30 60 km A e 4 p FVaLduz l AT A N ° Coordination 7 CH 4 Committee Rhine n hein i derr e Vor h Implementation r r e Bundesanstalt für t Gewässerkunde in H Data sources - Authorities in charge in the Rhine river basin district IT N ° - This product includes geographical data licensed from State: 6 4 European National Mapping Agencies. © EuroGeographics December 2009 5°E 6°E 7°E 8°E 9°E 10°E 11°E 12°E.

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