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WISE Large rivers and large lakes

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Prod-ID: DAT-1-en

Created 23 Feb 2009 Published 23 Feb 2009 Last modified 20 Mar 2023

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Topics: Water and marine environment

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Large rivers are rivers that have a catchment area large than 50,000 km2 or other rivers and tributaries that have a catchment area larger than 5,000 km2

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Zipped shapefile with WISE large rivers, vector line

Shapefile extracted from the WISE Large rivers and large lakes F1v1 geodatabase

Zipped shapefile with WISE large rivers, vector line (ZIP archive)
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Zipped personal geodatabase with WISE large rivers and lakes, polygon and line vectors

Zipped personal geodatabase with WISE large rivers and lakes, polygon and line vectors (ZIP archive)
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Zipped shapefile with WISE other large rivers and tributaries, vector line

Shapefile extracted from the WISE Large rivers and large lakes F1v1 geodatabase

Zipped shapefile with WISE other large rivers and tributaries, vector line (ZIP archive)
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Zipped shapefile with WISE large lakes, vector polygon

Shapefile extracted from the WISE Large rivers and large lakes F1v1 geodatabase

Zipped shapefile with WISE large lakes, vector polygon (ZIP archive)
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Metadata

Geographic accuracy:: 5000 m
Scale of the data set:: 1:10000000
Rights:: EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Coordinate reference system:: EPSG:3035
Data sources: Water Pattern Europe, scale 10 million, version 2, from EUROSTAT GISCO database; Water Framework Directive article 3 data on rivers and lakes from countries; Joint Research Centre catchment database CCM1.
Owners:: European Environment Agency (EEA)
Processors:: European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine waters (ETC/ICM)

Additional information

Large lakes are lakes that have a surface area larger than 500 km2. The definitions are from the WISE GIS guidance document. The main purpose of the data sets is to provide a cartographic background. To have a visually uninterrupted hydrographic network the feature layers should be used in combination with Transitional waters. For more information about European waters, please visit the WISE portal.Change compared to version 1.0: In version 1.1 one erroneous feature was deleted in the Large lakes dataset.

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Geographic coverage

Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechia Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden United Kingdom

For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/wise-large-rivers-and-large-lakes or scan the QR code.

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