The Amer is a river in the

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North Brabant North Brabant ( ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, Dutch Brabant or Hollandic 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 ...

. It is a continuation of the

Bergse Maas The Bergsche Maas (; History of Dutch orthography, current spelling: Bergsche Maas) is a canal that was constructed in 1904 to be a branch of the river Meuse, Maas (French: Meuse) in the Dutch province of North Brabant. The Maas splits near Heusde ...

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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 ...

to form the

Hollands Diep The Hollands Diep ( pre-1947 spelling: Hollandsch Diep) is a 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 N ...

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 De Biesbosch National Park is one of the largest national parks in the Netherlands and one of the last extensive areas of freshwater tide, tidal wetlands in Northwestern Europe. The Biesbosch ('forest of Scirpus, sedges' or 'rushwoods') consis ...

. In 1886, the splitting of the Maas and of the

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made the Amer the mouth of the Maas. Before anthropogenic actions in the early 1900s, salmon used to reach the Bergse Maas through the Amer. The river is also known because the

Amercentrale The Amercentrale is a biomass-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 electric ...

, one of the biggest

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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 The Wilhelmina Canal is a canal in North-Brabant, Netherlands. It connects Tilburg to the Meuse, and continues to the east to connect to the Zuid-Willemsvaart north of Helmond. Characteristics The Wilhelmina Canal runs from the Zuid-Willemsvaar ...

. Image:Biesbosch 20050928 40011.JPG, Amer in foreground

References

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