From the time that the earliest English-speaking settlers arrived, the area has also been known as The Forks, because it is situated at the confluence of the north and south branches of the Kalamazoo River.

From Louisville, the river loses depth very gradually until its confluence with the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois, where it has an approximate depth of.

From Aigualluts to the confluence with the main river at the bed of the upper Garonne valley ( 800 m a. s. l.

From the west the Elk River joins the Verdigris at a confluence slightly northwest of the geographical center of the county.

From Grant County, the lower John Day River flows another to its confluence with the Columbia River.

From its source to its confluence with the Rhine:

( From the confluence of Swale and Ure )

From here it follows the river very closely to its confluence with the Stour near Prestwood.

From the confluence, the river flows generally eastward along the southern border of Nebraska, passing through Swanson Reservoir and Harlan County Reservoir before curving southward into the Smoky Hills region of Kansas.

From Greeley, the South Platte turns east and flows about to its confluence with the North Platte River near the city of North Platte, Nebraska.

From the Quebrada de San Francisco, the watershed between the Zamora and Santiago Rivers, to the confluence of the Santiago River with the Yaupi ;

From there to its confluence with the River Severn, at Worcester ( about 60 miles / 100 km downstream ) it flows through the counties of Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire.

From that confluence the river is called the Dender proper.

From the confluence to the Ohio, the river zig-zags.

From the confluence of the White Esk ( rising near Ettrick Pen ) and the Black Esk ( rising near Jocks Shoulder, 1754 ft .) the Esk flows in a gradually south-easterly direction until it crosses the Border, whence it sweeps to the S. W.

From Dirtness, the Don flowed to the north east, to Adlingfleet, where it joined the River Trent near to its confluence with the River Ouse.

From that time forward, the point of the name change from Green to Duwamish is no longer a confluence of rivers, though it has not changed location.

From its headwaters at Mazinaw Lake to its confluence at the Ottawa River near Fitzroy Harbour the river drops 323 metres in elevation.

From the confluence of these two waterways, the main branch flows roughly due east past Two Dot, Harlowton, and Roundup, then turns north just past Melstone, and continues to the UL Bend on the Missouri River at the beginning of Fort Peck Reservoir.

From its headwaters to its confluence with the Tugaloo River, the Tallulah River is approximately long.

From its confluence with Oak Grove Fork, the river runs close to Oregon Route 224 for most of the rest of its course.

From its source at the confluence of its east and west forks near Summit, it flows generally southeast from the Central Oregon Coast Range to Corvallis.

From this point another straight line to the confluence of the Ypané-mi and the Ypané rivers to their confluence with the Guazú Stream.

From upstream it looks like a long arcaded box laid across the river ; ;

From the terraces -- eighteen in all -- broad flights of steps descend into the water or onto still more terraces barely above the level of the river.

From the upper end of the lake the river issues through the Nidau-Büren channel and then runs east to Büren.

From Okhla the canal follows the high land between the Khari-Nadi and the Yamuna and finally joins the Banganga river about below Agra.

From 1944 to 1971, pump systems drew cooling water from the river and, after treating this water for use by the reactors, returned it to the river.

From Kampong Cham the gradient slopes very gently, and inundation of areas along the river occurs at flood stage — June through November — through breaks in the natural levees that have built up along its course.

From the river the city starts to slope north up a hill, which is steep at some points.

From Keban to the Syrian – Turkish border, the river drops another over a distance of less than.

From the river bank they hear a very loud cry, followed by a complaining clamour in savage discords: " It culminated in a hurried outbreak of almost intolerably excessive shrieking, which stopped short "-" The sheer unexpectedness of it made my hair stir under my cap.

From Worsley to the rapidly-growing town of Manchester its construction cost £ 168, 000 (£ as of ), but its advantages over land and river transport meant that within a year of its opening in 1761, the price of coal in Manchester fell by about half.

From Najaf he journeyed to Wasit then followed the river Tigris south to Basra.

From there, Ibn Battuta travelled southwest along a river he believed to be the Nile ( it was actually the river Niger ), until he reached the capital of the Mali Empire.

From the dark chasm a fountain violently erupts, then forms the meandering river Alph, which runs to the sea described in the first stanza.

From Krzepice, the border goes eastwards, towards Koniecpol, and along the Pilica river, with such towns as Przedborz, Opoczno, Drzewica, Białobrzegi, and Kozienice within Lesser Poland.

From Givet, the river is canalized over a distance of 272 kilometres.

From then on, several stretches of the original Merwede were named " Maas " ( i. e. Meuse ) instead and served as the primary outflow of that river.

From the north it is joined by the river Coca, having its sources in the gorges of Cayambe ( volcano ) on the equator, and also a powerful river, the Aguarico, having its headwaters between Cayambe and the Colombian frontier.

From its Coca branch to the mouth of the Curaray the Napo is full of snags and shelving sandbanks, and throws out numerous canos among jungle-tangled islands, which in the wet season are flooded, giving the river an immense width.

From the Amazon the Napo is navigable for river craft up to its Curaray branch, a distance of about 216 miles ( 350 km ), and perhaps a bit further ; thence, by painful canoe navigation, its upper waters may be ascended as far as Santa Rosa, the usual point of embarkation for any venturesome traveller who descends from the Quito tableland.

From the Arab conquest 637 CE until modern time the city of Mosul on the opposite bank of the river Tigris became the successor of ancient Nineveh.

From Salto del Guairá, where the river enters Paraguay, the Paraná River flows 800 km to its juncture with the Río Paraguay and then continues southward to the Río de la Plata Estuary at Buenos Aires, Argentina.