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All of the upper branches of the river Madeira find their way to the falls across the open, almost level Mojos and Beni plains, of which are yearly flooded to an average depth of about for a period of from three to four months.
Its water level began to rise, eventually flooded the valley of Mga and broke into the valley of the river Tosna.
The connection to the Nile River was made not simply because this was then known as the great river of " Aethiopia " ( by which all lands south of the desert were called by Classical writers ), but because the Nile flooded every summer.
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.
Work on this task was delayed in October 716 when the Tiber river burst its banks and flooded Rome, causing immense damage and only receding after eight days.
* 90, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup > – Area of Mojos and Beni plains flooded by Madeira river
Inasmuch as the eastern banks of the Rhone marked the edge of his kingdom, when the river flooded up into the city of Avignon, Phillip taxed the city since during periods of flood, the city technically lay within his domain.
** In England, the city of Winchelsea on Romney Marsh is destroyed ; nearby Broomhill is also destroyed ; course of the nearby river Rother diverted to Rye ; cliff collapses at Hastings, blocking the harbour ; parts of Norfolk are flooded ; decline of the port of Dunwich in Suffolk is accelerated.
Because the carrying capacity of a river depends in part on its depth, the sediment in the water which is over the flooded banks of the channel is no longer capable of keeping the same amount of fines in suspension as the main thalweg.
Downstream from the Araguaia confluence, in the state of Pará, the river used to have many cataracts and rapids, but they were flooded in the early 1980s by the artificial lake created by the Tucuruí dam, one of the world's largest.
In 1914 – 15, one section of the northern arm of the Red Main was straightened and widened after areas along the river had been flooded during a period of high water in 1909.
A number of villages along the Angara and its tributaries ( including the historic fort of Ilimsk on the Ilim ), as well as numerous agricultural areas in the river valley, were flooded by these reservoirs.
The future combined rail and road bridge will be over long and constructed upriver at Tabaga, where the river narrows and does not create a wide flooded area in spring.
The Exchange Street and Washington Street bridges were flooded and the height of the river surpassed the flood walls on North Shore Drive, Court Street, and Conklin Ave.
Creation stories describe how Bunjil was responsible for the formation of the bay, or the bay was flooded when the Yarra river was created ( Yarra Creation Story.
For example, in 1988 two-thirds of Bangladesh's 64 districts experienced extensive flood damage in the wake of unusually heavy rains that flooded the river systems.
Emus are also able to swim when necessary, although they rarely do so unless the area is flooded or they need to cross a river.
Jason, who was summoned with many others to take part in the sacrifice, lost one of his sandals in the flooded river Anaurus while rushing to Iolcus.
Many drowned river valley estuaries were formed between about 15, 000 and 6000 years ago following the end of the Wisconsin ( or ' Devensian ') glaciation when a eustatic rise in sea level of flooded river valleys that were cut into the landscape when sea level was lower, creating the estuarine systems.
Over the next few days the river flooded, destroying the bridges and leaving Caesar stranded without food on the opposite side of the river from Afranius, who had a large stockpile of food and supplies.
This teosinte thrives in flooded conditions along 200 meters of a coastal estuarine river in northwest Nicaragua.
Although climate change has now led to lower levels of the River Haven, 500 years ago when Boston was at its zenith, the river would have regularly flooded.

river and city
On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.
After looking about a bit, Wilson discovered beyond Black Bottom, across the river and far removed from the white city, a considerable tract of land, and it occurred to him that the church and the better Negro homes might gradually be moved to this plot.
The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities -- the rubber factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh works -- often began on these sites at a time when that was the edge of the city, yet close to transport ( river ), storage ( piers ) and power ( river ).
Anavarza ) was an ancient Cilician city, situated in Anatolia in modern Turkey, in the present Çukurova ( or classical Aleian plain ) about 15 km west of the main stream of the present Ceyhan River ( or classical Pyramus river ) and near its tributary the Sempas Su.
The old city of Aarau is situated on a rocky outcrop at a narrowing of the Aar river valley, at the southern foot of the Jura mountains.
The city has a river port, industry enterprises, Katanov State University of Khakasia, and three theatres.
* The Sana flows through the city of Sanski Most and Prijedor and is a tributary of the river Sava in the north.
The river is famous as it flows through the famous city of Mostar.
The name Bourde is still the name of a river south of the city.
The city is built on a bend of the river Garonne, and is divided into two parts: the right bank to the east and left bank in the west.
Branco river and Macuxi's Bridge, with 1. 2 km, in Boa Vista, Roraima | Boa Vista city, Roraima state, Brazil.
In 842, with their chieftain Björn Ironside they launched a large-scale inland offensive and settled outside the city on the river bank.
The French, however, realised Bayonne's strategic site near the Spanish border and in 1578 dug a canal to again redirect the river through the city.
Bamberg () is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located in Upper Franconia on the river Regnitz close to its confluence with the river Main.
The city has a river which proceeds " out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
The river Nile flows through Cairo, here contrasting ancient customs of daily life with the modern city of today
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.
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.
Over the years, the Nile gradually shifted westward, providing the site between the eastern edge of the river and the Mokattam highlands on which the city now stands.
Concord lies fully within the Merrimack River watershed, and is centered on the river, which runs from northwest to southeast through the city.
The city is situated in a high desert river valley approximately above sea level.
The romances depict the city of Camelot as standing along a river, downstream from Astolat.

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