There is a long list of tautological place names, most often where multiple languates are ised in the name.
"Rio Grande River" means "Big River River" (rio being river and grande big).
"Kill" is Dutch for creek (e.g., Fishkill).
"Avon" is Celtic (Gaelic, Irish, Welch) for river (River Avon).
"Hatchie" is Choctaw for river (Loosahatchie River)
"Mississippi" is Anishinaabe for "big river".
Similarly Mekong, Cuyahoga, Wadi (or the Hispanified "guada"), Molopo, Ouse, Reka, Upė, Walla, "ci-" perfix (Java), Owen, and otheers in different refions.
Bothmia, Chad, Laguna, Lagunita, "-kal", Loch, bach, Michigan are all other terms for bodies of water (lakes, bays, etc.).
