Barcelona is located on the northeast coast of the Iberian Peninsula, facing the Mediterranean Sea, on a plain approximately wide limited by the mountain range of Collserola, the Llobregat river to the southwest and the Besòs river to the north.

In recent years, however, the ecological importance of the river has warranted a vast restoration effort, and the river today has a wide variety of economical and recreational uses.

In its course from Lake Victoria to Juba in southern Sudan, the White Nile's channel drops more than 600 m. In its 1, 600-km course from Juba to Khartoum, Sudan's capital, the river descends just 75 m. In southern and central Sudan, the White Nile passes through a wide, flat plain covered with swamp vegetation and slows almost to the point of stagnation.

alt = A river flowing through a wide valley

* Inland waterway, a body of water, such as a river, canal or lake, is navigable if it is deep, wide and slow enough for a vessel to pass.

The Irrawaddy, the main river of Burma, flows from north to south through the Central Burma Basin and ends in a wide delta.

At the town of Mera, shortly before reaching Puyo, the river exits the mountains and flows into a wide valley, becoming wider and shallower.

Within the Holy Roman Empire these territories gained a wide range of independence, threatened, however, by the French kings, who sought, from the 17th century onwards, to incorporate all the territories on the western side of the river Rhine and repeatedly invaded the area in 1635, in 1676, in 1679 and in 1734, extending their realm to the Saar River and establishing the city and stronghold of Saarlouis in 1680.

The Andalusian Plain is essentially a wide river valley through which the Río Guadalquivir flows.

Early use of inland waterway transport used the rivers, and while barges could use sails to assist their passage when winds were favourable or the river was wide enough to allow tacking, in many cases this was not possible, and gangs of men were used to bow-haul the boats.

A wide, flat valley through which a river runs is known in Scotland as a strath.

The wide river bed ( paleo-channel ) of the Ghaggar river suggest that the river once flowed full of water during the great meltdown of the Himalayan Ice Age glaciers, some 10, 000 years ago, and that it then continued through the entire region, in the presently dry channel of the Hakra River, possibly emptying into the Rann of Kutch.

The idea seems to have originated in a spoof history essay by Professor David Daube written for The Oxford Magazine in 1956, which was widely believed despite obvious improbabilities ( e. g., planning to cross River Severn by running the ram down a hill at speed, although the river is about 30 m ( 100 feet ) wide at this point ).

In the summer of 2001, a wide sandbar formed at the mouth of the river, marking the first time in recorded history that the Rio Grande failed to empty into the Gulf of Mexico.

But when summer comes around, Telluride transforms into an outdoor recreation hot spot, with tourists visiting to enjoy a wide range of activities including but not limited to mountain biking, hiking, river rafting, sightseeing and more.

Trento lies in a wide glacial valley called the Adige valley just south of the Alps foothill range Dolomite Mountains, where the Fersina and Avisio rivers join the Adige River ( the second longest river in Italy ).

The wide bed gives an indication of the former size of the river.

The Tonghui river still exists as a wide, concrete lined storm-channel and drain for the suburbs of Beijing.

Although upstream from the confluence Vltava is longer ( against ), has larger discharge and larger drainage basin, due to historical reasons ( at the confluence the Elbe flows through prominent wide valley while the Vltava, flowing into the valley, meets the Elbe at almost a right angle, so it appears as a tributary ) the river continues as Elbe.

Before early modern nation-building, the Low Countries referred to a wide area of northern Europe as a low-lying triangular river delta for the rivers Rhine, Meuse, Scheldt, and Ems.

The 1961 theme is the Dakota Territorial Centennial, with the pictures including the Lewis and Clark expedition, the first river steamboat, the 1876 gold rush, a little red schoolhouse on the prairie, and today's construction of large Missouri River reservoirs.

Locations across the river in St. Louis, Missouri were used, including Union Station and the Fox Theater, both of which have since been renovated.

Kansas City lies in the Midwestern United States, as well as near the geographic center of the country, at the confluence of the second largest river in the country, the Missouri River, and the Kansas River ( also known as the Kaw River ).

According to Harry W. Fritz, " All earlier Missouri River travelers had warned of this powerful and aggressive tribe, determined to block free trade on the river.

Missouri has many large river bluffs along the Mississippi, Missouri, and Meramec Rivers.

* Sac River, a river in southwest Missouri

Profile of the Pacific Railroad from Council Bluffs / Omaha to San FranciscoThe Union Pacific's of track started at MP 0. 0 in Council Bluffs, Iowa on the eastern side of the Missouri River, the location of its Transfer Depot where up to seven railroads could transfer mail and other goods to Union Pacific trains bound for the west from which they then crossed the river over the Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge ( opened in 1873 ) to Omaha, Nebraska.

The principal advantages of Council Bluffs / Omaha were that it was well north of the Civil War fighting taking place in Missouri, was the shortest route to South Pass break in the Rockies in Wyoming, and would follow a fertile river that would encourage settlement.

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson issued the following instructions to Meriwether Lewis: " The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, & such principal stream of it, as, by its course & communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado and / or other river may offer the most direct & practicable water communication across this continent, for the purposes of commerce.

In 1846, the Barlow Road was completed around Mount Hood, providing a rough but completely passable wagon trail from the Missouri river to the Willamette Valley: about 2, 000 miles.

As the years passed the Oregon Trail became a heavily used corridor from the Missouri River to the Columbia river.

* The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 ( based on an earlier bill in 1856 ) authorized land grants for new lines that would " aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean ".

( A physical connection between Omaha, Nebraska and the statutory Eastern terminus of the Pacific road at Council Bluffs, Iowa located immediately across the Missouri River was also not finally established until the opening of UPRR railroad bridge across the river on March 25, 1873, prior to which transfers were made by ferry operated by the Council Bluffs & Nebraska Ferry Company.

They lived along the Yellowstone and Musselshell rivers south of the Missouri River and in the river valleys of the Big Horn, Powder and Wind rivers, ( historically known as the Powder River Country ), sometimes traveling north up to the Milk River.

Pierre lies on rough river bluffs overlooking the Missouri River.

The eponymous segment runs on both sides of the river from Louisiana through the state borders of Kentucky / Illinois and Missouri / Iowa, excepting the full length of the road in Arkansas.

By the start of the American Civil War in 1861 there were several small river mill settlements, some mining camps and about nine or ten towns ( seven platted ) in Jasper County, Missouri.

The Missouri River comprises Jackson County's northern border ( with the exception of one small portion North of the river around the intersection of highway 291 and highway 210 as well as all of the 291 bridge ).

The center of the Missouri River forms the nominal northern border of the county, although the river has changed its course since boundaries were first established: a portion of St. Charles County near St. Albans is now south of the river, while a portion of Franklin County near Augusta is north of the river.

But it had, as was usual in southern cities of this sort, a Black Bottom, a low region near the river where the Negroes lived -- servants and laborers huddled together in a region with no sewage save the river, where streets and sidewalks were neglected and where there was much poverty and crime.

One spot in Osaka I shall always remember -- the bridge where we stood to watch the reflections of the elaborate neon signs in the still waters of the river.

He first built a small villa and named it Abbotsford, creating the name from a ford nearby where previously abbots of Melrose Abbey used to cross the river.

: And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven

It was built on a raised plateau overlooking the east bank of the river Strymon where it emerged from Lake Cercinitis, about 3 m. from the Aegean Sea.

Around 1511 or earlier, he travelled down the river and south into the Alps, where the scenery moved him so deeply that he became the first landscape painter in the modern sense, making him the leader of the Danube School, a circle that pioneered landscape as an independent genre, in southern Germany.

At first there was no passenger service, for south of the station was the Akihabara cargo docks, where goods from all over the world would flow into Kanda by river and be hauled up the east bank of the canal to be ticketed at the central cargo transport window.

The name comes from Greek Bosporos ( Βόσπορος ), which the ancient Greeks analysed as bous ' ox ' + poros ' means of passing a river, ford, ferry ', thus meaning ' ox-ford ', which is a reference to Io ( mythology ) from Greek mythology who was transformed into a cow and condemned to wander the earth until she crossed the Bosphorus where she met Prometheus.

“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.

[...] Thence the Britons retired to the river Thames at a point near where it empties into the ocean and at flood-tide forms a lake.

A bridge was built over the river Nabalia, where the warring parties approached each other on both sides to negotiate peace.

During the days of the Roman Empire, the settlement of Augusta Raurica was founded 10 or 20 kilometres upstream of present Basel, and a castle was built on the hill overlooking the river where the Basel Münster now stands.

Alluvial fans exist in all of the world's oceans and seas where river deltas fall off the edge of the continental shelf such as the Mississippi alluvial fan in the gulf of Mexico and the Nile alluvial fan in the Mediterranean Sea.

The city is along the Nile River, immediately south of the point where the river leaves its desert-bound valley and branches into the low-lying Nile Delta region.

Monet lived from December 1871 to 1878 at Argenteuil, a village on the right bank of the Seine river near Paris, and a popular Sunday-outing destination for Parisians, where he painted some of his best known works.

The two advanced south to face Ragnall, and this led to a battle somewhere on the banks of the River Tyne, probably at Corbridge where Dere Street crosses the river.

The most significant threat the Roman Empire faced during the reign of Domitian arose from the northern provinces of Illyricum, where the Suebi, the Sarmatians and the Dacians continuously harassed Roman settlements along the Danube river.

The upper portion of the river is one of the few places where a Canadian city lies directly south of an American city.

Most of the islands in the Detroit River are in the southern portion of the waterway near Grosse Ile and close to where the river empties into Lake Erie.