river

The White Knife

el Cuchillo Blanco

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Its surroundings · 50 leagues · approximate position
Type
river
Rank on the map
6 — village, river or road
Position
x 1767 · y 2967
Name in Spanish
el Cuchillo Blanco
Landmass
Poniente

What it is

Cuchillo Blanco es un importante río del Norte.

The North

The source of this datum is in Spanish and we do not machine-translate it: we quote it. See the full article

What is on record

Nature
Ríos
Located in
The NorthPoniente

According to the Hielo y Fuego Wiki · Cuchillo Blanco · 2026-07-30

The physical world

  • El Cuchillo Blanco continúa hacia el sur para unirse con el Mordisco en Puerto Blanco.

    What it is like · The Lands of Ice and Fire

  • Los ribereños navegan en canoas, largas barcas delgadas y duras construidas para desafiar las fuertes corrientes y las zonas rocosas del Cuchillo Blanco.

    What it is like · Danza de Dragones, Capítulo 15, Davos.

The source of this datum is in Spanish and we do not machine-translate it: we quote it.

Where it appears

In the books (7)

  • Danza de Dragoneschapters 15, 19, 29
  • Juego de Tronoschapters 14, 53
  • El Mundo de Hielo y Fuego
  • Tormenta de Espadaschapters 9, 49
  • A World of Ice and Fire
  • The Lands of Ice and Fire
  • Choque de Reyeschapters 35

What we are not sure about

  1. PositionWe worked it out

    The position was inferred from the label on the base map rather than from a symbol of its own: it marks the area, not the point.

Where each datum comes from

Position
point on the watercourse nearest the label
English name
visual reading of the label
Spanish name
name from the published Spanish edition
Label on the base map
80
What was read
The White Knife
Features averaged into the centroid
41
Base map
atlas-known-world-2019.png · Adam Whitehead, Atlas of Ice and Fire