In southeastern Washington, a stretch of the river passes through the Hanford Site, established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project.

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.

The name of the district and its main town is derived from that of the chief river of the region, the Hari River ( Old Iranian Harayu, " Golden Water "), which traverses the district and passes some south of modern Herāt.

The poem begins with a fanciful description of Kublai Khan's capital Xanadu, which Coleridge places near the river Alph, which passes through caverns before reaching a dark or dead sea.

The river Darro passes through a ravine on the north and divides the plateau from the Albaicín district of Granada.

Railways now bypass the three major falls, and much of the trade of Central Africa passes along the river, including copper, palm oil ( as kernels ), sugar, coffee, and cotton.

The origins of this city on the river track to Bolzano and the low Alpine passes of Brenner and the Reschen Pass over the Alps are disputed.

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

The water then passes through hydroelectric turbines that supply power to nearby areas of Canada and the United States before returning to the river well past the falls.

During the great migrations, various Germanic tribes settled and / or traversed the region using the river valleys and low passes, but about 600 CE the Slavs took possession of the area and settled assimilating the remaining autochthonous romanized population.

The river flows through that town, skirts Ellensburg, passes the city of Yakima, and continues southeast to Richland, where it flows into the Columbia River at an elevation of.

The high speed rail line HS1 from Kent to north London passes the crossing approach roads on the north side of the river, at a near right angle.

There are no major river systems in the country, and historically transportation was by means of caravans that followed routes traversing gaps and passes in the mountains.

In Turkmenistan it is known as the Tejen or Tedzhen river and passes close to the city of Tedzhen.

The Garonne river passes through the Val d ' Aran after rising on the Saburedo Cirque and receiving the water of the Joèu river ( from the slopes of nearby Pic Aneto and passing underground at the Forau de Aigualluts ).

The river rises at the Roc d ' Aude and passes through the Matemale and Puyvalador dams on the Capcir plateau at 1500 m, then crosses the department from south to north across Axat, Limoux and Quillan following the upper valley of the Aude.

The Anger river also passes through it.

The river flows just north of Bald Eagle Mountain ( one of the northernmost ridges of the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians ) through much of its course in Lycoming County, but it passes the end of the mountain and turns south just before the borough of Muncy ( on the east bank ).

Clinton is the largest settlement in the county with a population of about 5100, and lies further to the south along the Wabash River, between it and State Road 63 ; State Road 163 passes through the town to reach U. S. Route 41 on the east side of the river.

Indiana State Road 56 enters from Switzerland County to the south and passes east along the southern border, then north through Rising Sun and along the river, continuing north to Dearborn county.

Vermilion County is named after the Vermilion River, which passes through the county and empties into the Wabash River in Indiana near Cayuga ; the river was so named because of the color of the earth along its route.

The word Zhejiang ( crooked river ) was the old name of the Qiantang River, which passes through Hangzhou, the provincial capital.

The Rhine river, which starts in the Swiss Alps, passes through Lake Constance and leaves it, considerably larger, by flowing under a bridge connecting the two parts of the city.

For amateur joggers the Gave de Pau river bank footpath is a most valued itinerary, which starts near the castle and passes along Pau's golf course heading west.

They walked the horses, heading along the river, Barton and Emmett Foster in the lead, seven men riding quietly through the night.

They would have to go west through the narrow river valley that separated Leyte from Samar and hope that it didn't close in before they returned.

Through the splash of the rising waters, they could hear the roar of the river as it raged through its canyon, gnashing big chunks out of the banks.

There was no real sign of the river now, just a roiling, oily ribbon of liquid movement through muddy waters that reached everywhere.

Down through the axis of the bridge there is a long diminishing vista like a visual echo of piers and arches, while the vaults fronting upstream and down frame the sunset and sunrise, the mountains and river pools.

She escaped, crawled through the usual mine fields, under barbed wire, was shot at, swam a river, and we finally picked her up in Linz.

The Outing Club also owns a chain of fourteen cabins and several shelters, extending from the Vermont hills, just across the river from the college, through Hanover to the College Grant -- 27,000 acres of wilderness 140 miles north up in the logging country.

Between Innertkirchen and Meiringen, the river carves through a limestone ridge in the Aar Gorge or Aareschlucht.

There, in one of the major Swiss engineering feats of the 19th century, the Jura water correction, the river, which had previously rendered the countryside north of Bern a swampland through frequent flooding, was diverted by the Hagneck Canal into Lake of Bienne.

From the upper end of the lake the river issues through the Nidau-Büren channel and then runs east to Büren.

: And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven

Assyria or Athura ( Aramaic for Assyria ) was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the late 25th or early – 24th century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia ( present day northern Iraq ), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.

When the Ark was borne by priests into the bed of the Jordan, water in the river separated, opening a pathway for the entire host to pass through ( Josh.

The river turns to the west near Arezzo passing through Florence, Empoli and Pisa, flowing into the Tyrrhenian Sea at Marina di Pisa.

In Spandau, Berlin's westernmost borough, the Spree empties into the river Havel, which flows from north to south through western Berlin.

* The Sana flows through the city of Sanski Most and Prijedor and is a tributary of the river Sava in the north.

* The Vrbas flows through the cities of Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje, Bugojno, Jajce, Banja Luka, Srbac and reaches the river Sava in the north.

The river is famous as it flows through the famous city of Mostar.

* The Sava river is the largest river in Bosnia and Herzegovina but not the largest river that is flowing through Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Sava river flows through Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.

* the southern and southwestern regions, which are the driest of all, are drained by the Molopo river along the South African border and the Nossob river through the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, and are technically part of the basin of the Orange river.