Amer (river)

The Amer is a river in the

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North Brabant North Brabant ( nl, Noord-Brabant ; Brabantian: ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to th ...

. It is a continuation of the

Bergse Maas The Bergse Maas (; pre-1947 spelling: Bergsche Maas) is a canal that was constructed in 1904 to be a branch of the river Maas (French: Meuse) in the Dutch province of North Brabant. The Maas splits near Heusden into the Afgedamde Maas and the B ...

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from the river Donge near Raamsdonksveer to the point where it joins the river

Nieuwe Merwede The Nieuwe Merwede (; "New Merwede") is a Dutch canal, mainly fed by the river Rhine, that was constructed in 1870 to form a branch in the Rhine–Meuse delta. It was dug along the general trajectories of a number of minor Biesbosch creeks to r ...

to form the

Hollands Diep Hollands Diep ( pre-1947 spelling: Hollandsch Diep) is a wide river in the Netherlands and an estuary of the Rhine and Meuse rivers. Through the Scheldt-Rhine Canal it connects to the Scheldt river and Antwerp. The Bergse Maas river and the Ni ...

estuary, and has a total length of approximately . The Amer is a major navigation route. It forms the south boundary of the Biesbosch National Park. The river is also known because the

Amercentrale The Amercentrale is a coal-fired power plant of RWE in the municipality Geertruidenberg. The plant is named after the Amer River and is located on the left bank of this river. In 1952 Unit 1 of the first Amercentrale began generating electrici ...

, one of the biggest

power plant A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power. Power stations are generally connected to an electrical grid. Many p ...

s in the Netherlands, is located on its bank. As a result, ships transporting

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for the plant use the eastern part of the river, mainly coming from the Wilhelmina Canal. Image:Biesbosch 20050928 40011.JPG, Amer in foreground Rivers of North Brabant Rivers of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta Rivers of the Netherlands 0Amer Geography of Altena, North Brabant Drimmelen Geertruidenberg {{Netherlands-river-stub