Bow River
The headwaters of the Bow River in Alberta, Canada, start at the Bow Glacier and Bow Lake in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The glacial stream that feeds Bow Lake has a mean elevation of 2310 metres above sea level.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: watercourse in Alberta, Canada
- Also known as: “Bow”
Bow River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Bow River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باو”
- Armenian: “Բոու գետ”
- Asturian: “Ríu Bow”
- Belarusian: “Боў (рака)”
- Belarusian: “Боў”
- Bulgarian: “Боу (река)”
- Bulgarian: “Боу”
- Catalan: “riu Bow”
- Catalan: “Riu Bow”
- Cebuano: “Bow River”
- Chinese: “弓河”
- Chuvash: “Боу”
- Dutch: “Bow (rivier)”
- Dutch: “Bow River”
- Dutch: “Bow”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر باو”
- Esperanto: “Bow (rivero)”
- Esperanto: “Bow”
- French: “Bow River”
- French: “rivière Bow”
- French: “Rivière Bow”
- German: “Bow River”
- Hebrew: “בואו”
- Irish: “Abhainn Bow”
- Italian: “Bow”
- Japanese: “ボウ川”
- Korean: “보강”
- Latvian: “Bova”
- Lithuanian: “Bovas”
- Luxembourgish: “Bow River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bow River”
- Norwegian: “Bow River”
- Persian: “رودخانه بو”
- Polish: “Bow River”
- Polish: “Bow”
- Portuguese: “Bow”
- Portuguese: “Rio bow”
- Portuguese: “Rio Bow”
- Romanian: “Bow River”
- Romanian: “Râul bow”
- Romanian: “Râul Bow”
- Russian: “Боу”
- Serbian: “Боу”
- Slovak: “Bow River”
- Slovenian: “Bow River”
- Slovenian: “Bow”
- Slovenian: “reka Bow”
- Spanish: “Bow River”
- Spanish: “Rio Bow”
- Spanish: “Río Bow”
- Swedish: “Bow River, Alberta”
- Swedish: “Bow River”
- Turkish: “Bow Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Бо (ріка)”
- Ukrainian: “Бо (річка)”
- Ukrainian: “Боу”
- Uzbek: “Bow daryosi”
- Venetian: “Fiume Bow”
- Welsh: “Afon Bow”
- Western Frisian: “Bow (rivier)”
- Western Frisian: “Bow”
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