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.

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

Once the Euphrates enters the Upper Mesopotamian plains, its grade drops significantly ; within Syria the river falls while over the last stretch between Hīt and the Shatt al-Arab the river drops only.

Coastlines can shift in the direction of the sea when the sea level drops, when the surface rises due to tectonic forces in the Earth's crust or when a river forms a large delta.

The river drops rapidly in a 75 kilometre run to swampy Lake Hula, which is slightly above sea level.

Before it reaches the sea, the river drops over a 12-foot high vertical weir called the Slaughterhouse Falls.

The river drops from its source at the junction of Kolka and Bradford Creeks.

Beyond Billingford Bridge the River Dove, flowing northwards from Eye, joins on the southern bank, the Mid Suffolk Footpath crosses, and the river drops below the contour at another weir.

This is especially evident on Interstate 80 if one is coming from the east or the west where it has been flat for many miles and suddenly the land drops as you approach the river.

Falls are found on the river, especially in the western part of town, where it drops more than in, but its current is generally slow.

Despite the river's length and relatively large drainage area ( 308 square miles ; 798 km² ), its source is only 26 miles ( 42 km ) from its mouth, and the river drops only 350 feet ( 107 m ) from source to sea.

They presents an impressive sight of two almost indistinguishable drops as the river flows over the cliff face.

The sudden change from impermeable Wealden Clay to permeable chalk and the increased gradient of the river ( which drops 15 m in the six mile ( 10 km ) stretch between Brockham and Leatherhead, compared to 3 m in between Horley and Brockham ) allow the water table to drop below the bed of the river.

While the river Weser normally cannot be easily forded, during the summer the water level drops down to a low of 80 cm (~ 3 feet ) between Münden and Hameln, making it possible for infantry and cavalry to cross.

Such deserters were called the Nam Yum rats by Bigeard during the siege, as they hid close to the Nam Yum river during the day and searched at night for supply drops.

The upper Cuyahoga River, starting at over from its mouth, drops in elevation fairly steeply, creating falls and rapids in some places ; the lower Cuyahoga River only drops several feet along the last several miles of the lower river to at the mouth on Lake Erie, resulting in relatively slow moving waters that can take a while to drain compared to the upper Cuyahoga River.

This 100-mile ( 160 km ) stretch of river drops, carving a volcanic rock canyon to deep.

The village of Collias, approximately 12 kilometers downriver from the Pont Saint-Nicolas, has several kayak and canoe rental agencies which will bus customers upriver to the Pont Saint-Nicolas ( until the river level drops low in late June ).

Rain drops, for example, coalesce and move together, generating rivulets, streams and the mighty river basins of the world because this design allows them to move more easily.

The river was only a few blocks away but an unbroken line of piers prevented me from seeing it.

They were engulfed by the weird silence, broken only by the low, angry murmur of the river.

Was it only a few nights ago that they had been standing together in front of the house looking at the moon-washed river??

Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

The Aal is a small river located only within the town's territory.

The river flooded this city regularly in historical times, the last occasion being the famous flood of 1966, with 4, 500 m³ / s after rainfall of in Badia Agnano and in Florence, in only 24 hours.

“ 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.

This would only have been possible by the use of some kind of buoyancy device: Ammianus Marcellinus mentions that the Cornuti regiment swam across a river floating on their shields " as on a canoe " ( 357 ).

For many centuries to come Basel possessed the only permanent bridge over the river " between Lake Constance and the sea ".

Garoua, on the Benoué River, is the main river port, but it is active only from July to September.

Although the Cairo metropolis extends away from the Nile in all directions, the city of Cairo resides only on the east bank of the river and two islands within it on a total area of.

There is a plane tree in the corner by the river, the only remaining tree in a senior British football ground.

The only topography on it is the River Thames, letting the reader know whether a station is north or south of the river.

straddles Equator ; very narrow strip of land that controls the lower Congo River and is the only outlet to South Atlantic Ocean ; dense tropical rainforest in central river basin and eastern highlands

The Artibonite River is the longest river of the island but only 68 km are in the Dominican Republic.

The mouth and estuary of the Congo was now discovered ( perhaps in August 1482 ), and marked by a Padrão, or stone pillar ( still existing, but only in fragments ) erected on Shark Point, attesting the sovereignty of Portugal ; the great river was also ascended for a short distance, and intercourse was opened with the natives of the Bakongo kingdom.

In this tale, a fisherman discovers a heavy locked chest along the Tigris river and he sells it to the Abbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid, who then has the chest broken open only to find inside it the dead body of a young woman who was cut into pieces.

The Detroit River is designated an American Heritage River and a Canadian Heritage River — the only river to have this dual designation.

The Detroit River was designated as an American Heritage River in 1998 and a Canadian Heritage River in 2001 — the only river to have dual designations.

The only two automobile traffic routes that completely cross the river are the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, both of which connect Detroit, Michigan to Windsor, Ontario.

It is El Salvador's only navigable river, it and its tributaries drain about half the country.

* Eridanos ( mythology ) ( or Eridanus ), a river in Greek mythology, somewhere in Central Europe, which was territory that Ancient Greeks knew only vaguely