River Hase
| Hase | |
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 The canalized mouth of the river in Meppen
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| Name origin: haswa, germanic for gray | |
| Country | Germany |
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| Bundesland | Lower Saxony |
| Tributaries | |
| - right | Südradde, Mittelradde |
| Cities | Meppen (mouth), Haselünne, Herzlake, Löningen, Essen (Oldenburg), Quakenbrück, Bersenbrück, Bramsche, Osnabrück, Wellingholzhausen (source) |
| Source | |
| - location | Melle-Wellingholzhausen, Teutoburg Forest |
| - elevation | 165 m (541 ft) |
| - coordinates | 52°7′56.66″N 8°15′52.83″E / 52.1324056°N 8.2646750°E |
| Mouth | Ems River |
| - location | Meppen |
| - elevation | 15 m (49 ft) |
| - coordinates | 52°41′27.82″N 7°17′48.14″E / 52.6910611°N 7.2967056°ECoordinates: 52°41′27.82″N 7°17′48.14″E / 52.6910611°N 7.2967056°E |
| Length | 169.649 km (105 mi) |
 Course of the Hase through the Hase Valley
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The Hase is a 193-kilometre (120 mi) long river in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Ems, but part of its flow goes to the Else, that is part of the Weser basin. Its source is in the Teutoburg Forest, south-east of Osnabrück, on the north slope of the 307-metre (1,007 ft) high Hankenüll hill.
After about 15 kilometres (9 mi), near Gesmold and about 6 kilometres (4 mi) west of Melle, the Hase encounters an anomaly of terrain and bifurcates such that each branch flows in a different drainage system:
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