In the younger Avesta, Harax < sup > v </ sup > atī is Arachosia, a region described to be rich in rivers, and its Old Persian cognate Harauvati, which gave its name to the present-day Hārūt River in Afghanistan, may have referred to the entire Helmand drainage basin ( the center of Arachosia ).

However, the geographic situation of the Sarasvati and the Helmand rivers are similar.

A number of hydroelectric dams have created artificial reservoirs on some of the Afghanistan ’ s rivers including the Kajakai reservoir on the Helmand River.

It is located in Lashkar Gah district, and situated between the Helmand and Arghandab rivers.

However, farming does exist around the Helmand and Arghandab rivers.

Bost Airport is located on the east bank of the Helmand River, five miles north of the junction of the Helmand and Argahandab rivers.

The catchment area of the Indus is estimated at almost 1 million square kilometres, and all of Pakistan's major rivers — the Kabul, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, and Sutlej — flow into it.

Pushkalavati in the Peshawar Valley is situated at the confluence of the Swat and Kabul rivers, where three different branches of the River Kabul meet.

The Kabul River and Swat River are the two rivers that pass through the area of the Lower Mohmand.

The great Sanskrit grammarian and historian Pāṇini, who himself hailed from the nearby Shalatur, a village located near the confluence of the Kabul and Indus rivers, mentioned the names of tribes such as the Aprits ( identified with the modern Afridis ) and the Madhumants who inhabited the northwestern areas, in his Ashtadhyayi in the 5th century BC.

The Afghans joined the Gakkhars who held the country between the Indus and the Jhelum rivers and compelled the Lahore rulers to cede to them the hill country west of the Indus and south of the Kabul River.

The major tributaries of the Kabul River are the Logar, Panjshir, Kunar, Alingar, Bara and Swat rivers.

Beyond the confluence of Indus and Panjnad rivers, the Indus river was known as Satnad ( Sat = seven ) carrying the waters of seven rivers including Indus river, which is believed to be in earlier times the Saraswati / Ghaggar / Hakra river which eventually dried and became a seasonal river due to seismic shifts in the glacial region of Himachal Pradesh where it originated and later on Kabul river and the five rivers of Punjab.

That is, Hindko is likely derived from the Persian words for most mountainous regions along the Indus and Kabul rivers, as they tumble down towards the plains of Punjab and Sindh.

The bulk of the Panjab, 3. 5 rivers are located in Pakistan.

Today, three of the rivers run exclusively in Pakistani Panjab with the tributaries of the other two eventually draining there as well.

A few larger rivers, those cutting back through the Pontic Alps, have tributaries that flow in broad, elevated basins.

People starting with John Oxley in 1817, 1818 and 1821, followed by Charles Sturt in 1829 – 1830 attempted to follow the westward-flowing rivers to find an " inland sea ", but these were found to all flow into the Murray River and Darling River which turn south.

The flow of fresh water into the sea from approximately two-hundred rivers and the introduction of salt from the South builds up a gradient of salinity in the Baltic Sea.

Except for the Chobe, Okavango, Boteti and Limpopo rivers, most of Botswana's rivers cease to flow during the dry and early rainy seasons.

The Black Volta is one of the country's only two rivers which flow year-round, the other being the Komoé, which flows to the southwest.

Submarine channels are similar to land rivers, but they are formed by density currents — underwater flow mixtures of sand, mud and water that are denser than sea water and so sink and flow along the bottom.

Chari RiverChad's major rivers are the Chari and the Logone and their tributaries, which flow from the southeast into Lake Chad.

At N ' Djamena the Logone empties into the Chari, and the combined rivers flow together for thirty kilometers through a large delta and into Lake Chad.

Most rivers flow but intermittently.

To the east the rivers flow into the Tonle Sap, while on the west they flow into the Gulf of Thailand.

Toward the southern end of the Elephant Mountains, however, because of the topography, some small rivers flow southward on the eastern side of the divide.

In the south, the principal rivers — the Wouri, Sanaga, Nyong, and Ntem — flow southwestward or westward directly into the Gulf of Guinea.

Taking water from existing rivers or springs was an option in some cases, sometimes supplemented by other methods to deal with seasonal variations in flow.

Humanity is faced with the remnants of its past glories: for example, a network of roads and sidewalks that flow like rivers.

The city lies beside huge freshwater Lake Michigan, and two rivers — the Chicago River in downtown and the Calumet River in the industrial far South Side – flow entirely or partially through Chicago.

Other rivers are generally short and drain the Pacific lowlands or flow from the central plateau through gaps in the southern mountain range to the Pacific.

The Arno river and three other minor rivers flow through it.

From the north flow Sestra River, Porvoo, Vantaa and several other small rivers.

Genesis 2-3 locates the garden with reference to four rivers and the regions they flow through:

Hydrology considers quantifying surface water flow and solute transport, although the treatment of flows in large rivers is sometimes considered as a distinct topic of hydraulics or hydrodynamics.

An upper limit of 750 BC is indicated by a number of considerations, such as the probability that his work was written down, the fact that he mentions a sanctuary at Delphi that was of little national significance before c. 750 BC ( Theogony l. 499 ), and he lists rivers that flow into the Euxine, a region explored and developed by Greek colonists beginning in the 8th century BC.

Potamoisi toisin autoisin embainousin, hetera kai hetera hudata epirrei " Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.

Giovanni Bernini's `` Fountain of the Rivers '', in the center of the piazza, is built around a Roman obelisk from the Circus of Maxentius which rests on grottoes and rocks, with four huge figures, one at each corner, denoting four great rivers from different continents -- the Danube, the Ganges, the Nile, and the Plate.

They threatened constantly to give the British a hold on this region, from whence they could move easily down the rivers to the French settlements near the Gulf.

In the spring of 1831, hired by New Salem businessman Denton Offutt and accompanied by friends, he took goods by flatboat from New Salem to New Orleans via the Sangamon, Illinois, and Mississippi rivers.

The physical oceanography of the Aegean Sea is controlled mainly by the regional climate, the fresh water discharge from major rivers draining southeastern Europe, and the seasonal variations in the Black Sea surface water outflow through the Dardanelles Strait.

The Taurus Mountains are more rugged and less dissected by rivers than the Pontus Mountains and historically have served as a barrier to human movement inland from the Mediterranean coast except where there are mountain passes such as the historic Cilician Gates ( Gülek Pass ), northwest of Adana.

The most productive portion of arable land is that from sediments left by rivers and the sea in geological times.

The valleys of the Debet and Akstafa rivers form the chief routes into Armenia from the north as they pass through the mountains.

Like most of the other vertebrate fossils from the formation, Albertosaurus remains are found in deposits laid down in the deltas and floodplains of large rivers during the later half of Horseshoe Canyon times.

The river flows west to Selma, then southwest until, about from Mobile, it unites with the Tombigbee, forming the Mobile and Tensaw rivers, which discharge into Mobile Bay.

An important raw material, amber was transported from the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts overland by way of the Vistula and Dnieper rivers to Italy, Greece, the Black Sea, and Egypt thousands of years ago, and long after.

Within the valley itself are two " major " rivers, the Annapolis River which flows west from the Caribou Bog in the central part of the valley into the Annapolis Basin, and the Cornwallis River which flows east from Caribou Bog into the Minas Basin.

The valley also struggles with pollution from farm runoffs and residential sewers in its two major rivers, the Annapolis River and the Cornwallis River.

The city grew along the valleys of the rivers Alcoa and Baça, from which it derives its name.

A collection of immense importance, the holdings of Assyrian, Babylonian and Sumerian antiquities are among the most comprehensive in the world with entire suites of rooms panelled in alabaster bas-reliefs from highly important sites between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris and include the biblical cities of Nimrud, Nineveh and Khorsabad.

" ( Wills is quoted as saying, " I rode horeseback from the place between the rivers to Childress to see Bessie Smith ... She was about the greatest thing I had ever heard.

The Northwest Forest Plan, a piece of federal legislation from 1994, mandated that timber companies consider the environmental impacts of their practices on rivers like the Columbia.

The remainder of the country is prone to flooding from nearby rivers.

It was found from southern New York and Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico, and lived in old forests along rivers.

In early medieval Riez in upper Provence, alluvial silt from two small rivers raised the riverbeds and widened the floodplain, which slowly buried the Roman settlement in alluvium and gradually moved new construction to higher ground ; concurrently the headwater valleys above Riez were being opened to pasturage.