** Central Austro-Bavarian ( along the main rivers Isar and Danube, spoken in the northern parts of the State of Salzburg, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, and the Northern Burgenland )

Once the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads reached Chicago, that time dynamic changed, and American poleboats became less common, relegated to smaller rivers and more remote streams.

Fed by rivers of Central African Republic, as well as by the Bahr Salamat, Bahr Aouk, and Bahr Sara rivers of southeastern Chad, the Chari River is about 1, 200 kilometers long.

The vast, low-lying central area is a basin-shaped plateau sloping toward the west, covered by tropical rainforest and criss-crossed by rivers, a large area of this has been categorised by the World Wildlife Fund as the Central Congolian lowland forests ecoregion.

Traditional Chinese Medicine ( TCM ), and its associated fields such as acupuncture, base their system on mystical numerical associations, such as the “ 12 vessels circulating blood and air corresponding to the 12 rivers flowing toward the Central Kingdom ; and 365 parts of the body, one for each day of the year ” being the basis of locating acupuncture points.

* The thinly populated Canadian Shield in the northwestern and central portions, which comprises over half the land area of Ontario ; though this area mostly does not support agriculture it is rich in minerals and in part covered by the Central and Midwestern Canadian Shield forests, studded with lakes and rivers.

The valleys of the Central Lowland's westward-flowing rivers are broad and shallow, and periodic flooding of their courses creates seasonal swamps.

Most of these rivers are born in the Cordillera Central, Puerto Rico's principal mountain range located across the center of the island.

The Pechenegs ( a semi-nomadic Turkic people of the Central Asian steppes ) occupied the steppes north of the Black Sea ( 8th – 12th century ) and by the 10th century were in control of the lands between the Don and lower Danube rivers.

The Meseta Central (" Inner Plateau ") is a vast plateau in the heart of peninsular Spain, has elevations that range from 610 to 760 m. Rimmed by mountains, the Meseta Central slopes gently to the west and to the series of rivers that form some of the border with Portugal.

Most major rivers rise in the mountains rimming or dissecting the Meseta Central and flow westward across the plateau through Portugal to empty into the Atlantic Ocean.

The major rivers flowing westward through the Meseta Central include the Duero, the Tagus, the Guadiana, and the Guadalquivir.

Sri Lanka's rivers rise in the Central Highlands and flow in a radial pattern toward the sea.

* The Central Mountain Range ( 中央山脈 ) extends from Su-ao in the northeast to Eluanbi at the southern tip of the island, forming a ridge of high mountains and serving as the island's major watershed for rivers and streams.

The principal rivers of Central Asia, the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, both flow through Tajikistan, fed by melting snow and glaciers from the mountains of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.

In the first millennium BC, Iranian nomads established irrigation systems along the rivers of Central Asia and built towns at Bukhoro and Samarqand.

These nomads, who spoke Iranian dialects, settled in Central Asia and began to build an extensive irrigation system along the rivers of the region.

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.

The flood waters were exacerbated by the sediments washed down by the millions of tons by hydraulic mining, which filled the beds of the Sacramento, Feather and American rivers up to in Sacramento and also covered thousands of acres of Central Valley lands.

The Central Valley was becoming a heavily developed irrigation farming region, and cities along the state's Pacific coast and the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers were growing rapidly, requiring ways to manage the river's water to prevent flooding ( and resulting economic loss ) on one hand, and to ensure a consistent supply of it on the other.

It is located in Central Asia in the doab between the rivers Amu Darya and Syr Darya, and is divided between Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and ( partly ) Turkmenistan.

Characins are most diverse in the Neotropics, where they are found in tropical lakes and rivers throughout most of South and Central America.

Extending entirely across the state of Alabama for about south of its northern boundary, and in the middle stretching farther south, is the Cumberland Plateau, or Tennessee Valley region, broken into broad tablelands by the dissection of rivers.

It is located at the south end of the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, about east of the Oregon Coast.

The " Finger of Galilee " (, Etzba HaGalil ) is a panhandle along the Hulah Valley ; it contains the towns Metulla and Qiryat Shemona and the rivers of Dan and Banias ; also the Arab village of Cana.

Its wealth came from controlling the trade in ivory from the Limpopo Valley, copper from the mountains of northern Transvaal, and gold from the Zimbabwe Plateau between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers, with the Swahili merchants at Chibuene.

The world's earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia ( beginning with Sumer ), ancient Egypt, and the Indian subcontinent ( beginning with the Indus Valley civilization ), which began along the valleys of the Tigris-Euphrates, Nile and Indus rivers respectively, all developed around the Indian Ocean.

The areas of lowest water quality are the heavily populated regions of the Chui Valley and Osh and Jalal-Abad provinces, and areas along the rivers flowing into Ysyk-Köl.

The Biqa Valley is watered by two rivers that rise in the watershed near Baalbek: the Orontes flowing north ( in Arabic it is called Nahr al Asi, " the Rebel River ", because this direction is unusual ), and the Litani flowing south into the hill region of the southern Biqa Valley, where it makes an abrupt turn to the west in southern Lebanon and is thereafter called the Al Qasmiyah River.

Second category rivers rise in the Middle Hills and Mahabharat Range, from east to west the Mechi, Kankai and Kamala south of the Kosi ; the Bagmati that drains Kathmandu Valley between the Kosi and Gandaki systems, then the West Rapti and the Babai between the Gandaki and Karnali systems.

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.

Therefore in 1863, the tribes from the area surrounding the middle Sacramento and Feather rivers, the Konkow group, were removed and marched forcibly to the Round Valley Indian Reservation near the Eel River.

Along the Rhône Valley, it is joined on the right bank by Cévennes rivers Eyrieux, Ardèche, Cèze and Gardon or Gard, on the left Alps bank by rivers Isère, Drôme, Ouvèze and Durance.

The town of Celje is located under Upper Celje Castle () at the confluence of the Savinja, Hudinja, Ložnica, and Voglajna rivers in the lower Savinja Valley, and at the crossing of the roads connecting Ljubljana, Maribor, Velenje, and the Central Sava Valley.

The whole Central Valley is watered by mountain-fed rivers ( notably the San Joaquin, Kings, and Sacramento ) that drain to the San Francisco Bay system.

Most of the early settlers in Castle Valley claimed easily watered bottom lands along the creeks and rivers, and by 1879, most of the best lands had been taken up.

Along the Rhone Valley, it is joined on the right ( western ) bank by the rivers Eyrieux, Ardèche, Cèze, and Gardon coming from the Cévennes mountains ; and on the left bank by the rivers Isère ( 350 m³ / s ), Drôme, Ouvèze, and Durance ( 188 m³ / s ) from the Alps.

Agriculture, especially the creation of grazing land, and the draining of lakes and rivers have radically altered the habitats of the Valley.

Stretches from the St Lawrence Seaway, across the Great Lakes, down the Ohio River Valley to the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers.

3 of the 1862 Act granted the railroads of public land for every mile laid, except where railroads ran through cities and crossed rivers.

Another previous route that ran through the Persian Gulf via the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was also being threatened by exploitations from the Sassanid Empire, as well as being disrupted by the Lakhmids, the Ghassanids, and the Roman – Persian Wars.

Through these weak soils and rocks ran many rivers, from the Dorset Frome in the west and including the Stour, Beaulieu River, Test, Itchen and Hamble, which created a large estuary flowing west to east and into the English Channel at the eastern end of the present Solent.

The Sarus now enters the sea almost due south of Tarsus, but there are clear indications that at one period it joined the Pyramus, and that the united rivers ran to the sea west of Kara-tash.

Zeus loosed a deluge, so that the rivers ran in torrents and the sea flooded the coastal plain, engulfed the foothills with spray, and washed everything clean.

The name " Portage " comes from an old Native American path called " Portage Trail ", which ran between the Cuyahoga and Tuscarawas rivers, where travelers portaged their canoes.

Tolkien stated that two significant rivers ran through the forest.

One part of the trail connected the Potomac and Susquehanna rivers, and the other ran from the Conewago River to the Patapsco River ( Hanover, Pennsylvania to Baltimore, Maryland ).

They had expected the German Wehrmacht to make stands on the natural defensive lines provided by the French rivers, and had not prepared the logistics for the much deeper advance of the Allied armies, so fuel ran short.

Colt's waterproof cable, made from tar coated copper, proved valuable when Morse ran telegraph lines under lakes, rivers, bays, and in his attempts to lay a telegraph line under the Atlantic Ocean.

A relatively resistant chalk ridge ran continuously from the Purbeck Hills to the Isle of Wight, which the rivers could not break through.

The rivers Hron and Žitava ran through the county.

The New York and New Haven came later, as it ran parallel to the Long Island Sound coast and required many bridges over rivers.

Córdova also mentioned the water features, describing 26 rivers and 16 creeks that ran through the region.

Section 3 granted an additional 10 square miles ( 26 km² ) of public land for every mile of grade except where railroads ran through cities or crossed rivers.

This boundary, which was used until 1910, ran between the headwaters of the Mekong and Yangtse rivers.

The Japanese Third Fleet also had ships patrolling the rivers that ran through Shanghai, and the city was well within the firing range of their guns.

Canals and rivers were unavailable in the winter season due to freezing, but the railroads ran year-round despite poor weather.

Historically, these two rivers ran together and the area known as Wanouchi today was one of many ring-levees in the middle of the river.

Stretching between the rivers Sava and Drava, on the roads which ran between Siscia-Mursa, ( Sisak-Osijek ), Salona – Aquincum, Sirmium – Poetovio, it was easy to access.

As established, the grant ran all the way from the St. Lawrence River to the Atlantic Ocean, between the Kennebec and St. Croix rivers, and produced what today is most of Aroostook, Piscataquis, Washington, Hancock, Penobscot, Waldo, Knox, Lincoln, Kennebec, Somerset, and Sagadahoc Counties.

The border ran roughly along the Oder and Swine rivers, with Pomerania-Wolgast now consisting of Hither or Western Pomerania ( Vorpommern, yet without Stettin and Gartz ( Oder ) on the Oder river's left bank, and with Greifenberg on its right bank ), and Pomerania-Stettin consisting of Farther Pomerania.

The road ran along the southern edge of the pancake-flat Pianura Padana within sight of the northern foothills of Italy's Appennine mountains, crossing numerous tributary rivers of the Po, notably the Rubicone near Rimini-although it is not certain that this river is the same as the famous Rubicon crossed by Julius Caesar in 49 BC ; and the river Trebbia near Piacenza, site of the first of Hannibal's three major victories over the Romans during his invasion of Italy.

In the east of the country, the first line of resistance ran along the IJssel and Maas rivers.