Near the river's mouth, the heavily irrigated Rio Grande Valley is an important agricultural region.

Near its mouth it passes the entrance to the Kiel Canal at Brunsbüttel before it debouches into the North Sea.

Near the mouth of the Great Wicomico River in the Chesapeake Bay, five year-old artificial reefs now harbor more than 180 million native Crassostrea virginica.

Near its mouth, it forms the border between downtown Boston and Cambridge and Charlestown.

Near the mouth the river has an average annual discharge of, although this varies widely.

Near the mouth of the Catatumbo River, where it empties into Lake Maracaibo, is the famous Catatumbo lightning ( Relámpago del Catatumbo ) which is recognised by the lightning bolts on the state's flag and coat of arms.

Near its mouth, the river is spanned by a New Jersey Transit railroad bridge which carries the North Jersey Coast Line ; the Victory Bridge which carries Route 35 ( connecting Perth Amboy and Sayreville, New Jersey ); the Edison Bridge, which carries U. S. Route 9 ( connecting Woodbridge Township and Sayreville ); and the Driscoll Bridge, which carries the Garden State Parkway ( connecting Woodbridge Township and Sayreville ).

Near the mouth of the river in Cleveland's Flats

Near the mouth of the river, Dearne Mouth washland, which is now known as the Denaby Ings Nature Reserve, was created in 1963, and a manually operated sluice allowed the flow of the river to be diverted through the floodbank and into the washland when there were high levels at the junction with the River Don.

Near the mouth of the Humber and along the Toronto Passage was a trading post called Teiaiagon, where the French and English met with the locals for trading.

Near the mouth of the river, near Juffure, is James Island, a place used in the slave trade which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Near the mouth of the river, the only dinosaur fragments ever discovered in Oregon were found in the Otter Point Formation, along the coast of Curry County.

Near the mouth of the river and its confluence with the James River, State Route 5 crosses the river on the Judith Stewart Dresser Bridge, a fixed-span bridge between Charles City County and James City County built in 2009.

Near the mouth, the Kuban narrows to 3 – 4 km and then forms a delta covering about 4300 km².

Near the mouth growth a dense array of short whiskers, which the shrew actively uses in searching for prey, especially in the night.

Image: River Lune, at Sunderland Point. jpg | Near the mouth of the Lune, at Sunderland Point

* On Tomales Bay: Echa-kolum, Shotommo-wi ( near the mouth of San Antonio Creek ), Sakloki ( opposite Tomales Point, Dillon Beach area ), Utumia ( Near present-day town of Tomales.

* Near the present-day town of Salmon Creek: Pulya-lakum ( on the ocean, near the mouth of Salmon Creek ).

Near the John Ross bridge, 8 km from the mouth, is the site of the historic Zulu village Ndondakusuka.

Near the mouth of the harbour lies the township of Aramoana ( Maori for " pathway to the sea "), infamous for a massacre of 13 people by a gunman, David Gray, in November 1990.

Near the mouth of the Humber River, appropriately named " Humber Mouth ", is the city of Corner Brook ( 2001 pop.

Near the mouth of Waddell Creek is the Theodore J. Hoover Natural Preserve, a freshwater marsh that is rare because it has been relatively undisturbed.

Near its mouth, it is surrounded by extensive salt marshes, with extensive populations of saltmarsh cordgrass ( Spartina alterniflora ) and common reed.

Near Wren, it turns north, crosses under Route 20 again, turns east, receives Gellatly Creek and La Bare Creek, both from the left, and passes under Oregon Route 223 at about from the mouth.

Near Lage Zwaluwe, the Nieuwe Merwede joins the Amer, forming the Hollands Diep, which splits into Grevelingen and Haringvliet, before finally flowing into the North Sea.

Near Kottayam it splits into a number of distributaries before emptying into the Vembanad Lake.

Near Numansdorp it splits into the Haringvliet and the Volkerak.

Near Numansdorp, the Hollands Diep splits into the Haringvliet and the Volkerak estuaries.

Near Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, U. S. 26 again splits from U. S. 20 to the southeast, proceeding to Blackfoot, where U. S. 26 joins Interstate 15 for about 20 miles before splitting just south of Idaho Falls toward Alpine, Wyoming.

Near to its northern terminus, the motorway splits into two branches.

Near Garner, US 69 briefly heads west concurrent with US 18, but soons splits off from it and heads north.

Near Lebanon, US-36 passes about south of the Geographic center of the contiguous United States, which is indicated by a marker where US-281 splits northward to Lebanon.

Near unincorporated Pearson, SH-59 splits off to the east.

Near the Utah State Line the highway splits into U. S. 89 and U. S. 89A.

Near Nature's Valley east of Plettenberg Bay it once again splits off, traversing the various Tsitsikamma gorges such as the Bloukrans Pass and then rejoining the N2 east of the Bloukrans Bridge.

Near unincorporated Bellvue, SH-66 splits away from SH-48 and turns back to the northeast.

Near the Tropic of Capricorn, the river splits in two ; the smaller southern branch, Bermejito, and the northern branch that known as the Teuco River ( also called Bermejo or Bermejo Nuevo ).

Near the town of Sillamäe, site of a former uranium enrichment plant, about 1, 200 tons of uranium and about 750 tons of thorium had been dumped into a reservoir on the shore of the Gulf of Finland.

Christianity spread initially from Jerusalem throughout the Near East, into places such as Syria, Assyria, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Asia Minor, Jordan and Egypt.

The Near Eastern Iron Age is divided into two subsections, Iron I and Iron II.

But its loss of influence in Italy and Germany, and the consequent formation of the Dual State, had at length indicated the proper, and, indeed, the only field for its diplomacy in the future – the Near East, where the process of the crystallization of the Balkan peoples into nationalities was still incomplete.

Near Luz en route to Haran, Jacob experienced a vision of a ladder, or staircase, reaching into heaven with angels going up and down it, commonly referred to as " Jacob's ladder ".

Near ground zero, everything flammable burst into flame.

It includes stepping into the Near Umbra right up to traveling through outer space, contacting and controlling spirits, communing with your own or others ' avatars, returning a Mage into a sleeper, returning ghosts to life, creating magical fetish items, and so forth.

In 1981 a team of researchers from the Maison de l ' Orient et de la Méditerranée, including Jacques Cauvin and Oliver Aurenche divided Near East neolithic chronology into ten periods ( 0 to 9 ) based on social, economic and cultural characteristics.

* 732 – Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, the leader of the Franks, Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe.

The earliest history of pottery production in the Near East can be divided into four periods, namely: the Hassuna period ( 7000-6500 BCE ), the Halaf period ( 6500-5500 BCE ), the Ubaid period ( 5500-4000 BCE ), and the Uruk period ( 4000-3100 BCE ).

By 313 BC, Hellenic ideas had begun their almost 250-year expansion into the Near East, Middle East, and Central Asian cultures.

It was as a military commander that Trajan is best known to history, particularly for his conquests in the Near East, but initially for the two wars against Dacia — the reduction to client kingdom ( 101 – 102 ), followed by actual incorporation into the Empire of the trans-Danube border kingdom of Dacia — an area that had troubled Roman thought for over a decade with the unfavourable ( and to some, shameful ) peace negotiated by Domitian's ministers.

" The Department was for the first time organized into geographical divisions, including the Far East, the Near East, Latin America and Western Europe.

* Metal horseshoes come into more common use in the Near East and in Europe, increasing the efficiency of horsepower in agriculture and transportation.

Proso millet appears to have reached Europe not long after its appearance in Georgia, first appearing in east and central Europe ; however, the grain needed a few thousand more years to cross into Italy, Greece, and Iran, and the earliest evidence for its cultivation in the Near East is a find in the ruins of Nimrud, Iraq dated to about 700 BC.

Near the end of the siege of Kimberley, it was expected that the Boers would intensify their bombardment, so Rhodes displayed a notice encouraging people to go down into shafts of the Kimberley Mine for protection.

Following Cyrus the Great's conquest of the Near East and Central Asia, Cambyses II further expanded the empire into Egypt during the Late Period by defeating the Egyptian pharaoh Psamtik III during the battle of Pelusium in 525 BCE.

The Israelites (, Standard: ; Tiberian: ; ISO 259-3: ) were a Semitic Hebrew-speaking people of the Ancient Near East, who inhabited part of the Land of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic periods ( 15th to 6th centuries BCE ), later evolving into Jews and Samaritans of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, inhabiting the territories of Judea and Galilee, and Samaria respectively, though a Jewish diaspora had already developed outside of Judea and Galilee.

Near Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, the main stream continued west until it flowed into River Oude Maas near Heerjansdam.

Near the end of Resident Evil, the protagonist Alice walks outside of her quarantine into a ravaged city street jammed with traffic.

Near Drew's Station, just outside of Contention City, a man stepped into the road and commanded them to " Hold!