Kinokawa River

Kinokawa River Kino River, Yoshino River
Wakayama city.
Native name	紀ノ川 (Japanese) 紀の川 (Japanese) 吉野川 (Japanese)
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Mount Ōdaigahara
Mouth
• location	Kii Channel
• coordinates	34°13′19″N 135°07′41″E / 34.2220453°N 135.1279644°E / 34.2220453; 135.1279644,
• elevation	0 m (0 ft)
Length	136 km (85 mi)
Basin size	1,660 km2 (640 sq mi)

The Kinokawa or redundantly Kinokawa River (紀ノ川 or 紀の川, Kinokawa) is a river in Nara and Wakayama Prefecture in Japan. It is called Yoshino River (吉野川, Yoshinogawa) in Nara. It is 136 kilometres (85 mi) long and has a watershed of 1,660 square kilometres (640 sq mi).^[1]

The river flows from

.

Geography

The boundary between

is designated as the source. The rainy season helped to create an .

Railroad

The

partly runs in parallel with the river.

History

Abundant water was useful for human settlement.

It was an area where the Koyasan, Kokawa and Mitsui temples were strong; centralized rule was impossible, until

.

The novelist Sawako Ariyoshi titled one of her books after the river.

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