Her tears formed the river Achelous.

* The Casentino, in the province of Arezzo, formed by the upper course of the river until the confluence with the Maestro della Chiana channel.

This may exemplify a rare example of insular dwarfing in a mainland context, with the " islands " being formed by the extensive river networks in the Amazon Basin, which form effective biogeographic barriers.

It is situated at an altitude of 482 meters above sea level by the river Amper, with a boundary demarcated by lateral moraines formed during the last ice age and the Amper glacial valley.

Fenrir " howled horribly ," saliva ran from his mouth, and this saliva formed the river Ván ( Old Norse " hope ").

It formed the backbone of a waterway stretching some 382 miles ( 614 km ), linking a number of lakes and rivers to provide a route from Gothenburg ( Swedish: Göteborg ) on the west coast to Söderköping on the Baltic Sea via the river Göta älv and the Trollhätte kanal, through the large lakes Vänern and Vättern.

The task was a demanding one: the river was fast-flowing, up to deep, and had a bed formed of a deep layer of gravel which made the construction of piers on the river bed impossible, and so the bridge had to have a central span of.

The river of the town formed an important part of the pitch.

The Zambezi river is the boundary between the two Rhodesias, and so the dam itself and the lake it formed both straddle the boundary.

Lesotho can be roughly divided into three geographic regions: the lowlands, following the southern banks of the Caledon River, and in the Senqu river valley ; the highlands formed by the Drakensberg and Maloti mountain ranges in the east and central parts of the country ; and the foothills that form a divide between the lowlands and the highlands.

A large lowland basin formed over two million years ago as a result of an eastern flowing river that existed well before the Pleistocene ice ages.

The Mississippi River flows along a ridge formed by its own deposits ( known as a levee ), from which the lands decline toward a river beyond at an average fall of six feet per mile ( 3 m / km ).

Her tears formed the river Achelous.

The delta of Neva was formed at that time, which is actually pseudodelta, as it was formed not by accumulation of river material but by plunging into the past sediments.

With the Intertropical Convergence Zone ( ITCZ ) swinging northward over West Africa from the Southern Hemisphere in April, heavy showers coming from pre-monsoonal convective clouds mainly in the form of squall lines also known as the north easterlies formed mainly as a result of the interactions of the two dominant airmasses in Nigeria known as the Maritime tropical ( south westerlies ) and the Continental tropical ( north easterlies ), begins in central Nigeria while the Monsoons from the south atlantic ocean arrives in central Nigeria in July bringing with it high humidity, heavy cloud cover and heavy rainfall which can be daily occurrence lasting till September when the monsoons gradually begin retreating southward to the southern part of Nigeria. Rainfall totals in central Nigeria varies from in the lowlands of the river Niger Benue trough to over along the south western escarpment of the Jos Plateau.

In 1788 the African Association was formed in England to promote the exploration of Africa in the hopes of locating the Niger, and in June 1796 the Scottish explorer Mungo Park was the first European to lay eyes on the river.

The municipality is formed by the city of Nijmegen, incorporating the former villages of Hatert, Hees and Neerbosch, as well as the urban expansion project of Waalsprong, situated north of the river Waal and including the village of Lent and the hamlet of't Zand, as well as the new suburbs of Nijmegen-Oosterhout and Nijmegen-Ressen.

The river had great significance in the history of the Native Americans, as numerous civilizations formed along its valley.

The river formed on a piecemeal basis beginning between 2. 5 and 3 million years ago.

** Alluvial plain, formed over a long period of time by a river depositing sediment on its floodplain or bed which becomes alluvial soil.

As goddess of death she was also called a daughter of Zeus and Styx, the river that formed the boundary between Earth and the underworld.

The river formed part of the United States-Mexican international boundary during the early 19th century.

No earlier evidence of human occupation has been found, but the island almost certainly formed part of the land bridge used for the settlement of Australia and New Guinea by at least 40, 000 BC There is no evidence of Homo erectus having reached Sulawesi ; crude stone tools first discovered in 1947 on the right bank of the Walennae river at Berru, which were thought to date to the Pleistocene on the basis of their association with vertebrate fossils, are now thought to date to perhaps 50, 000 BC

Follow the road beside the Rangitata River ( a world-class white-water rafting and salmon fishing river, which also provides vital irrigation to surrounding districts ) into the upper Rangitata River valley for some of the most spectacular alpine and high country scenery in New Zealand.

Before the river enters the Canterbury Plains, part of it is diverted to the Rangitata Diversion Race ( RDR ) for irrigation and hydroelectric generation.

Towards its mouth, the river originally split into two streams, forming a large delta island ( Rangitata Island ).

The Rangitata is the most fished river in the Central South Island Region, having a self-sustaining Chinook salmon fishery.

The road leading south along the river was shaded with old trees, and in the moonlight the silvery landscape was like a setting for trolls and wood gods rather than the Hudson River Valley of his boyhood memories.

In the Appalachian Valley region the Coosa River is the principal river ; and in the Piedmont Plateau, the Tallapoosa River.

North of the mineral region is the Cereal Belt, embracing the Tennessee Valley and the counties beyond, whose richest soils are the red clays and dark loams of the river valley ; north of which are less fertile soils, produced by siliceous and sandstone formations.

In Cairo, and along the Nile River Valley, the climate is a desert climate ( BWh according to the Köppen climate classification system ), but often with high humidity due to the river valley's effects.

The Nile Valley and Delta, the most extensive oasis on earth, was created by the world's longest river and its seemingly inexhaustible sources.

In Alaska, a river which runs through the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes is called River Lethe.

His earliest dated drawing is a Landscape of the Arno Valley, 1473, which shows the river, the mountains, Montelupo Castle and the farmlands beyond it in great detail.

These changes ensured the availability of water for irrigation and made the Murray Valley Australia's most productive agricultural region, but have seriously disrupted the life cycles of many ecosystems both inside and outside the river, and the irrigation has led to dryland salinity that now threatens the agricultural industries.

After the seven upper tributaries join, the river becomes the Narayani inside Nepal and is joined by the ( East ) Rapti from Chitwan Valley.

The former, the second longest river in Central Asia with a total length of, stretches across the Fergana Valley in far-northern Tajikistan.

These rivers form the two main river basins of Central Asia ; they are used primarily for irrigation, and several artificial canals have been built to expand the supply of arable land in the Fergana Valley and elsewhere.

* December 16 – The New Madrid earthquake in the Mississippi Valley near New Madrid reverses the course of the river for a while.

Milan is located in the north-western section of the great Po Valley, between the rivers Ticino and Adda, among the river Po and the first reliefs of the Alps.

As the economy of the Sacramento Valley grew, the Southern Pacific Railroad established tracks along the river to connect California with Oregon following the ancient path of the Siskiyou Trail, in the 1880s and 1890s.

Capable of absorbing enormous flood flows and storing the water for use in prolonged drought as well as navigation and electricity generation, it gave inhabitants of the Sacramento Valley nearly complete control over the whims of the river.

The site controlled a river portage alongside the mouth of the rapids-infested La Chute River in the between Lake Champlain and Lake George and was strategically placed in conflicts over trade routes between the British-controlled Hudson River Valley and the French-controlled Saint Lawrence River Valley.

In 1846, the Barlow Road was completed around Mount Hood, providing a rough but completely passable wagon trail from the Missouri river to the Willamette Valley: about 2, 000 miles.

To avoid crossing the Salt River ( which drains into the Snake River ) which runs down Star Valley the Lander Road crossed the river when it was small and stayed west of the Salt River.

Like most of Oregon and Washington south of Puget Sound into the Willamette Valley the landscape and climate of Clark County are determined by its placement between the volcanic Pacific Coast and Cascade Ranges, where glaciation helped form a U-shaped valley which meets the river valley of the Columbia River as it leaves the Columbia River Gorge.

From Hekou County to Yumenkou, the river passes through the longest series of continuous valleys on its main course, collectively called the Jinshan Valley.

Tunungwant " Tuna " Creek joins the river from the south in Carrollton, New York ( flowing north from Bradford, Pennsylvania ); the Great Valley Creek and Little Valley Creek join the river from the north at Salamanca, New York before becoming the Allegheny Reservoir.