Big River Explained

Big River or Big Rivers may refer to:

Geography

Rivers

In Australia

• Big River (Brodribb River, Victoria), a tributary of the Brodribb River, in Victoria
• Big River (Goulburn River, Victoria), a tributary of the Goulburn River, in Victoria
• Big River (Mitta Mitta River, Victoria), a tributary of the Mitta Mitta River, in Victoria

In New Zealand

• Big River (Buller), a tributary of the Blackwater River (Little Grey River tributary)
• Big River (Grey)
• Big River (Southland)
• Big River (Tasman)

In the United States

• Big River (Alaska), a tributary of the Kuskokwim River
• Big River (California)
• Big River (Michigan)
• Big River (Missouri)
• Big River (New Hampshire)
• Big River (Oregon)
• Big River (Rhode Island)
• Big River (Washington)
• Big River (Wisconsin)

In Canada

• Big River (Saskatchewan), a river in Saskatchewan

Communities

Canada

• Big River, New Brunswick, Canada
• Big River, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Rural Municipality of Big River No. 555, Saskatchewan, Canada

New Zealand

• Big River, New Zealand, abandoned mining town on the West Coast

United States

• Big River, California, United States
• Mendocino, California, formerly Big River

Other places

• Big Rivers (wine), a grape-growing zone in New South Wales, Australia
• Big Rivers Region, a region of the Northern Territory, Australia
• Big Rivers Regional Trail, a rail trail in Dakota County, Minnesota, U.S.

Music

• Big River (musical), a 1985 musical by Roger Miller based on Mark Twain's novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Big River (Troy Cassar-Daley album)
• Big River (Jimmy Nail album)
• "Big River" (Jimmy Nail song)
• "Big River" (Johnny Cash song)
• "Big River", a song by Van Halen from the album A Different Kind of Truth

Film and TV

• Big River (film), a 2006 film featuring Joe Odagiri
• "Big River", an episode of the TV series Dora the Explorer

Other uses

• Big Rivers Australian Football League, an Australian rules football competition in the Northern Territory
• Big Rivers Conference, a high school athletic conference in Western Wisconsin
• Big Rivers Conference (Illinois), a high school football conference, 1999–2012

See also

• • Mississippi River (derived from Native American names meaning Big River), the largest river system in North America
• Rio Grande (literal English translation: Big River), a river that forms part of the MexicoUnited States border
• Guadalquivir (derived from Arabic الوادي الكبير: Big River), the fifth-longest river in Spain and most important in Andalusia