There are numerous islands in the Detroit River, and much of the lower portion of the river is incorporated into the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge.

The deepest portion of the Detroit River is deep in the northern portion of the 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.

Much of the lower portion of the river ( List of islands in the Detroit River # Mud Island | Mud Island pictured ) is now part of the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge.

Situated in the south-central portion of the province, along the north shore of the Bay of Fundy at the mouth of the St. John River, the city is split by the south-flowing river and the east side is bordered on the north by the Kennebecasis River where it meets the St. John River at Grand Bay.

Trier sits in a hollow midway along the Moselle valley, with the most significant portion of the city on the east bank of the river.

* Water sampling, the process of taking a portion of water for analysis or other testing, e. g. drinking water to check that it complies with relevant water quality standards, or river water to check for pollutants, or bathing water to check that it is safe for bathing, or intrusive water in a building to identify its source.

This portion of the river becomes the most degraded, as there are a number of different kinds of fish that live in this segment as well.

If any portion of the waters of the Amazon runs round the southern side of the large island of Marajó into the river Para, it is only through tortuous, natural canals, which are in no sense outflow channels of the Amazon.

The dam has created an artificial lake over a portion of the river, called Sapung Lake.

A diversionary dam is a structure designed to divert all or a portion of the flow of a river from its natural course.

In the 1990s, as part of the citywide revitalization project known as MAPS, the city built a series of low-water dams, returning water to the portion of the river flowing near downtown.

The most famous portion of the railway is Bridge 277, ' the bridge over the River Kwai ', which was built over a stretch of river which was then known as part of the Mae Klong.

The portion between the river Loire and the Garonne was given to Gallia Aquitania, and central-eastern portions were given to the new province of Germania Superior.

The river flowed east of its current position during the time of Nebuchadnezzar II, and little is known about the western portion of Babylon.

The river's basin extends from the eastern portion of Extremadura to the southern provinces of the Algarve ; the river and its tributaries flow from east to west, then south to the border towns of Vila Real de Santo António ( Portugal ) and Ayamonte ( Spain ), where it flows into the Gulf of Cádiz.

The largest portion of the municipal territory lies to the west of the valley of the Noguera Pallaresa and stretches as far as the Noguera Ribagorçana river.

A significant portion of the eastern side of the acropolis has been eroded away by the Copán River, although the river has since been diverted in order to protect the site from further damage.

With the exception of a small portion of the Montagne Noire, which drains into the river Aude, the whole department belongs to the basin of the Garonne.

The lands of the canton are shaped by the river, which in its mid portion forms a wide valley, commonly known as the Riviera.

Under General Jubal A. Early ’ s command and following Lee ’ s orders, General John B. Gordon was to place Lancaster and the surrounding farming area “ under contribution ” for the Confederate Army ’ s war supplies and to attack Harrisburg from the east side of the river, while another portion of Lee ’ s army advanced from the west side.

( The Pamunkey called the river of their territory Pamunkey ; residents retained that for a portion upstream from West Point.

In Quebec City, municipal officials built a 3 metre ( 10 ft ) high wall around the portion of the city where the Summit of the Americas was being held, which only residents, delegates to the summit, and certain accredited journalists were allowed to pass through.

Indeed, in the largest biological weapons accident known – the anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk ( now Yekaterinburg ) in the Soviet Union in 1979, sheep became ill with anthrax as far as 200 kilometers from the release point of the organism from a military facility in the southeastern portion of the city ( known as Compound 19 and still off limits to visitors today, see Sverdlovsk Anthrax leak ).

Perhaps best known for the portion that runs through the borough of Manhattan in New York City, it actually runs through Manhattan and The Bronx, exiting north from the city to run an additional through the municipalities of Yonkers, Hastings-On-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, Tarrytown and terminating north of Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County.

Finally, the Black and Tans sacked Cork city, on the night of 11 December 1920, destroying a large portion of the city centre.

Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, though a small portion of the city limits also extend into DuPage County.

The original fort site is now adjacent to the present historic " Old Town " portion of the city.

Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States, located in the southeastern portion of the Chicago metropolitan area.

The small portion of the city that extends into Eaton County is located in Michigan's 7th congressional district, which has been represented by Republican congressman Tim Walberg since 2011.

The small portion of the city that extends into Eaton County is located in the 24th district of the Michigan Senate, which is currently represented by Republican state senator Rick Jones.

In 2010, citing Royal Canadian Mounted Police sources, the Jane's Intelligence Review said the LTTE controls a portion of the one billion dollar drug market in the Canadian city of Montreal.

Another example is town of Bresegard, the ' gard ' portion of the town name derives from the Slavic word ' grad ', meaning city or town.

According to a New York Times article from Feb. 1, 1893, Smith allegedly: " picked up little Myrtle Vance ... near her father's residence, and ... carried her through the central portion of the city ... En route through the city he was asked by several persons what he was doing with the child.

* The Paris Independent School District serves the portion of the city inside of Loop 286.

Simeon was an entrepreneur in trade on the Columbia River ; in his will he suggested that his wife could " devote some portion of my estate to benevolent objects, or to the cultivation, illustration, or development of the fine arts in the city of Portland, or to some other suitable purpose, which shall be of permanent value and contribute to the beauty of the city and to the intelligence, prosperity, and happiness of the inhabitants ".

The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.

The portion of the city west of the St. John River is collectively referred to as West Side, although West Saint Johners typically divide this area into several neighbourhoods.

In some cities such as Miami and San Francisco, the main city is much smaller than the surrounding suburban areas, leaving the city proper with a small portion of the metro area's population and land area.

*, is an east – west highway crossing through the southern portion of the state from Detroit to the Indiana state line at Michiana.

Brighton is a principal satellite city of Metro Detroit located in the southeast portion of Livingston County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

East Detroit Public Schools serves Macomb County residents, whose primary district boundaries encompass the City of Eastpointe and the southeastern portion of the City of Warren.

The western portion of the Detroit Zoo is located in the city and contributes to its tax base.

Originally including all of the Grosse Pointe communities, and the northeastern portion of the City of Detroit, in its later years, it is was reduced to the portion of the village of Grosse Pointe Shores that was in Wayne County.

Hamtramck is surrounded by the city of Detroit except for a small portion of the western border that touches the similarly surrounded city of Highland Park.

The city is completely surrounded by Detroit except for a small portion that touches the city of Hamtramck, which is also surrounded by Detroit.

The band lived in Detroit for a portion of the recording of the album, where Kiedis and Slovak indulged in heavy cocaine use.

A portion of residential area known as Poletown became the Hamtramck auto assembly plant in 1981 with those residents relocated by the city of Detroit which claimed eminent domain in order to make way for an automobile plant.

In 1981, a portion of the neighborhood was cleared to make way for the construction of the General Motors Detroit / Hamtramck Assembly plant.

With the exceptions of Interstate 275 and the freeway portion of M-53, every Metro Detroit freeway has a frontage road along it for at least a portion of its length.

Although most other cities on the UMTA list simply gave up on their plans, Detroit decided to press ahead with the portion they could build with the funds they already had, and completed the downtown loop.

Norvell was an influential and active participant in the first constitutional convention in 1835 also in the convention at Detroit in 1837 that accepted the compromise offered by Congress in which Michigan could become a state if it dropped its claims over the Toledo Strip in exchange for the western portion of the upper peninsula.