    Sentence 1: What's the name of where the  Rhine branches off near Dordrecht?    Sentence 2: The Beneden Merwede branches  off, near Hardinxveld-Giessendam and  continues as the Noord, to join the Lek,  near the village of Kinderdijk, to form  the Nieuwe Maas; then flows past  Rotterdam and continues via Het Scheur  and the Nieuwe Waterweg, to the North  Sea.