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My other vote is for Pittsburgh, which has 3 huge rivers surrounding downtown and many other rivers in the region. Pittsburgh could definitely utilize its riverfronts more, but the potential is there! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOd8AKTU8AAIEQY.jpg
Los Angeles - LA River, Phoenix - Salt River, Santa Fe - Rio Grande
The Los Angeles River is probably the most recognizable river in America, even though many don’t realize it’s one. Everyone around the world knows the paved over section from movies, tv, video games, music videos, etc.
Los Angeles - LA River, Phoenix - Salt River, Santa Fe - Rio Grande
Santa Fe is on the Santa Fe River that eventually flows into the Rio Grande near Cochiti Pueblo, 20+ miles downstream. Albuquerque is on the Rio Grande.
IMHO there's river cities and there's river cities, if you know what I mean.
Some cities are technically on a river - or at least have a river going through them - but don't feel like river cities, because they're either also on a lake (Chicago, Milwaukee), actually on the ocean (NYC), or very close to the ocean (Philadelphia, DC).
Other cities are what you'd consider to be true "river cities" but are located on relatively small river systems, so while the river helps to define the geography of the city, it resulted in their being a relatively small "hinterland" which was connected in the early days by riverine traffic. Hartford, Albany, Richmond, San Antonio, and Portland are all examples of this.
But when people really think about "river cities" generally speaking they typically mean those cities which are part of the great Mississippi-Missouri Watershed, since they were all so heavily commercially interconnected early in U.S. history. Particularly those directly on the Ohio, Mississippi, or Missouri, like Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans.
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