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The Birsig river is a small river, which sources in eastern France near the Swiss border. The Birsig is about 42 kilometers long and its watershed area is about 82 square kilometers. It flows variably through Swiss and French territory and through the Birsig Valley. Afterwards it passes the city of Basel, where it enters the Rhine river. The Murray River in Australia. ... A watershed is a region of land where water drains downhill into a specified body of water, such as a river, lake, sea, ocean or wetland. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Location within Switzerland Basel (British English traditionally: Basle and more recently Basel , German: Basel , French: Bâle , Italian: Basilea ) is Switzerlands third most populous city (166,563 inhabitants (2004); 690,000 inhabitants in the conurbation stretching across the immediate cantonal and national boundaries made Basel Switzerlands second-largest... At 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second, the Rhine (German Rhein, French Rhin, Dutch Rijn, Romansch: Rein, Italian: Reno) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe. ...


The Birsig river originally flowed openly through Basel, but its banks had been built up and forced early to prevent water damage to the houses. The river flowed directly along the houses in the lower part of the city, where many bridges were built over. It took the fecal waste from the houses and was therefore called "the city's big shitter", which favoured the outbreak of cholera and typhus. Cholera (also called Asiatic cholera) is a water-borne disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, which are typically ingested by drinking contaminated water, or by eating improperly cooked fish, especially shellfish. ... This is about the disease Typhus. ...


Nowadays the Birsig river is overbuilt; there are just a few hundred meters around the city zoo where the Birsig river can be seen openly. Free monkeys islands at the São Paulo Zoo Panda enclosure at Chiang Mai Zoo Visitors feeding and petting tamed marmots at the Parc Animalier des Pyrenées Aquarium with a dolphin at the Barcelona Zoo Sea lions at the Melbourne Zoo For other uses of the term Zoo...


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From the left: Thur | Töss | Glatt | Aare | Birs | Birsig | Ill | Sauer | Lauter (Wieslauter) | Queich | Speyerbach | Rehbach | Isenach | Eckbach | Eisbach | Pfrimm | Selz | Nahe | Mosel | Nette | Brohlbach | Ahr | Erft | At 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second, the Rhine (German Rhein, French Rhin, Dutch Rijn, Romansch: Rein, Italian: Reno) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe. ... Download high resolution version (794x1114, 84 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Thur is a 131 km long river in north-eastern Switzerland. ... The Töss is a river of the Canton of Zürich. ... Aar (disambiguation). ... The Ill is a river of Alsace, in north-eastern France. ... The Nahe is a river in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, a tributary to the Rhine. ... The Moselle (French Moselle, German Mosel, from Latin Mosella, little Meuse) is a river flowing through France, Luxembourg and Germany, joining the Rhine river at Koblenz. ... The Nette is a small river in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, a left tributary of the Rhine. ... The Ahr is a tributary of the Rhine beginning at a height of approximately 520 meters above sea level in Blankenheim (the Eifel) in Fachwerkhauses to near the Blankenheimer Burg in North Rhine-Westphalia. ... The Erft is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ...


From the right: Vorderrhein | Hinterrhein | Landquart | Ill | Dornbirner Ach | Bregenzer Ach | Argen | Schussen | Radolfzeller Aach | Wutach | Murg | Wehra | Wiese | Elz | Kinzig | Rench | Acher | Murg | Federbach | Alb | Pfinz | Kraichbach | Saalback | Neckar | Weschnitz | Modau | Main | Wisper | Lahn | Wied | Sieg | Wupper | Düssel | Ruhr | Emscher | Lippe | Oude IJssel/Issel | Berkel | Schipbeek At 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second, the Rhine (German Rhein, French Rhin, Dutch Rijn, Romansch: Rein, Italian: Reno) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe. ... At 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second, the Rhine (German Rhein, French Rhin, Dutch Rijn, Romansch: Rein, Italian: Reno) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe. ... The Ill is a 72 km long tributary of the Rhine river in the western Austrian province of Vorarlberg. ... Dornbirner Ach is a river with its source up in the valley near the alpine village Ebnit. ... The Bregenzer Ach is the main river of the Bregenzerwald, in the Vorarlberg Province of Austria. ... The Elz is a river in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, a right tributary of the Rhine. ... The Kinzig is a German river that runs for 95km from the Black Forest through the Upper Rhine River Plains. ... The Rench is a river in Ortenau County, Baden-Württemberg, Germany and a right-side tributary of the Rhine River. ... The Acher is a river in Ortenau County, Baden-Württemberg, Germany and a tributary of the Rhine River. ... The Pfinz is a right-side tributary of the Rhine in Baden-Württemberg. ... The Neckar is a river in Germany, a major tributary of the River Rhine, which it joins at Mannheim. ... Map showing the position of the Main in Germany The Main (pronounced in FUCKKKK GERmany! German like the English word mine) is a river in Germany, 524 km long (including White Main 574 km), and one of the more significant tributaries of the Rhine river. ... The river Lahn in Limburg The Lahn is a river in Germany. ... The Wied is a river in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ... The Sieg is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany named after the folk of the Sigambrer. ... The Wupper is a tributary to the Rhine river in Northrhine-Westfalia of Germany. ... The Düssel is a small right tributary of the River Rhine in North Rhine Westphalia. ... For the conurbation see Ruhr Area. ... The Emscher is a relatively small river flowing through the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany. ... The Lippe is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Oude IJssel (the Dutch name) or Issel (the German name) is an approx. ... The Berkel is a tributary of the River IJssel in the Netherlands. ...

 

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Birsig Mark (Birsigmarke) (72 words)
The right-hand arch of the central arcade of the Town Hall (Rathaus) bears a mark which shows how high the waters of the Birsig reached during the great floods of 1529 and 1530.
The River Birsig is a tributary of the Rhine which flows from the south through the low-lying part of the city.
Today the Birsig is nowhere to be seen, as it is channelled underground through the entire city centre.
Birsig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (188 words)
The Birsig river is a small river, which sources in eastern France near the Swiss border.
It took the fecal waste from the houses and was therefore called "the city's big shitter", which favoured the outbreak of cholera and typhus.
Nowadays the Birsig river is overbuilt; there are just a few hundred meters around the city zoo where the Birsig river can be seen openly.
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