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.
- Type: Stream
- Description: watercourse in Alberta, Canada
- Also known as: “Râul bow”, “reka Bow”, “Rio bow”, “Бо (ріка)”, and “Бо (річка)”
Bow River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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Latitude
49.95007° or 49° 57′ 0″ north
Longitude
-111.68505° or 111° 41′ 6″ west
Elevation
710 metres (2,329 feet)
Open location code
85XCX827+2X
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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”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر باو”
- Esperanto: “Bow (rivero)”
- Esperanto: “Bow”
- French: “rivière Bow”
- French: “Rivière Bow”
- German: “Bow River”
- Greek: “Ποταμός Μπόου”
- 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: “Rio Bow”
- Romanian: “Râul Bow”
- Russian: “Боу”
- Serbian: “Боу”
- Slovak: “Bow River”
- Slovenian: “Bow”
- Spanish: “Río Bow”
- Swedish: “Bow River, Alberta”
- Swedish: “Bow River”
- Turkish: “Bow Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Боу”
- Uzbek: “Bow daryosi”
- Venetian: “Fiume Bow”
- Welsh: “Afon Bow”
- Western Frisian: “Bow (rivier)”
- Western Frisian: “Bow”
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Places to explore: Grassy Lake and Ronalane.
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Highlights: Oldman River and Bow Island.
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