The lowest points are in the valleys of the Araks River and the Debet River in the far north, which have elevations of, respectively.

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

In the remainder of this region, the southern portion, the most prominent feature is Little Mountain, extending about from east to west between two valleys, and rising precipitously on the north side above them or above the sea.

Other volcanic peaks rise from the floor of the valleys, some of the Kirunga ( Mfumbiro ) group, north of Lake Kivu, being still partially active.

Also flowing east, in two smaller valleys north of the Cornwallis River, are the Canard River and the Habitant River, both of which also flow into the Minas Basin.

The plateau, on whose centre stands the town of Ajmer, may be considered as the highest point in the plains of North India ; from the circle of hills which hem it in, the country slopes away on every side-towards river valleys on the east, south, west and towards the Thar Desert region on the north.

On the opposite extreme, summers in the Southern Interior valleys are hot ; for example in Osoyoos the July Maximum averages, hot weather sometimes moves towards the Coast or to the far north of the province.

From north to south, the mountain ranges and valleys are:

Finally, even during climatic extremes, some parts of the continent always remain relatively exempt: for example, the tropical north stays fairly warm and wet in all climatic circumstances ; alpine valleys are less affected by drought, and so on.

The next two valleys to the east contain Butternut Creek, which flows north, and the East Branch of the Tioughnioga River, which flows south.

Many believe that it was here, in the fertile valleys of Strathtay and Strathmore, that the four-posters became refined into neat squares, averaging 12 square metres in internal area, placed on neat levelled mounds with cists or cremations near the north east stone.

This area of river valleys and coastal plains, which most Honduras call " the north coast ," or simply " the coast ," has traditionally been Honduras's most exploited region.

) The most influential modern theories favor either a march up the valley of the Drôme and a crossing of the main range to the south of the modern highway over the Col de Montgenèvre or a march farther north up the valleys of the Isere and Arc crossing the main range near the present Col de Mont Cenis or the Little St Bernard Pass.

Hanover was thus a gateway to the Rhine, Ruhr and Saar river valleys, their industrial areas which grew up to the southwest and the plains regions to the east and north, for overland traffic skirting the Harz between the Low Countries and Saxony or Thuringia.

Small valleys run north to south across the island.

Paghman and Jalalabad are interesting valleys north and east of the city.

The narrow, deeply incised valleys of the north also provide a habitat for rare plants and animals, especially the European Otter, a protected species.

Grain, mostly wheat, is grown in the valleys of the Selenge river system in the north, but yields fluctuate widely and unpredictably as a result of the amount and the timing of rain and the dates of killing frosts.

Hillside vegetation is limited to scrub forest and the area functions as a deserted buffer zone allowing the development of distinctive cultures in valleys and hills further north.

Alpine, often semi-arid valleys — including Humla, Jumla, Dolpo, Mustang, Manang and Khumbu — cut between Himalayan subranges or lie north of them.

The mountainous region is sparsely populated above, but in central and western Nepal ethnic Tibetans inhabit even higher semi-arid valleys north of the Himalaya.

Plains rise to the north of the valleys.

To the north, separated from the main body of mountains and plateaus by broad valleys, lies the Knuckles Massif: steep escarpments, deep gorges, and peaks rising to more than 1, 800 meters.

At these low elevations are numerous valleys, many of them deep, and covered with larch forest, except in the extreme north, where the tundra dominates.

To the northeast of these highlands and lowlands is a rugged section with steep mountain-sides, deep narrow coves and valleys, and flat mountain-tops.

Although the general direction of the mountains, ridges, and valleys is northeast and southwest, irregularity is one of the most prominent characteristics.

The average annual rainfall is, with extremes of or more in the mountainous northeast ( the windward side of the island ) and in the southwestern valleys.

In Tajikistan's dense river network, the largest rivers are the Syr Darya and the Amu Darya ; the largest tributaries are the Vakhsh and the Kofarnihon, which form valleys from northeast to southwest across western Tajikistan.

Rainfall in mountainous areas varies considerably ; sheltered valleys receive little rain, but slopes exposed to the northeast trade winds experience heavy rainfall.

Its contour is characterized by long, even ridges with long, continuous valleys in between that generally run parallel from southwest to northeast.

Most settlement is concentrated around the hamlet of Sundown on Rondout Creek, along the two branches of the Neversink River or in the plateau between the two valleys northeast of Red Hill, at elevations 2, 500 feet ( 762 m ) above sea level and higher.

In the northeast of their range they live close to rivers, valleys and in ravine forests, but avoid areas with more than of snowfall.

A combination of the stream valleys, such as that in which 96th Street runs, and wetlands to the northeast and east, may have protected a portion of the Upper West Side from the Lenape's controlled burns ; lack of periodic ground fires results in a denser understory and more fire-intolerant trees, such as American Beech.

Narragansett Bay is a ria that consists of a series of flooded river valleys formed of dropped crustal blocks in a horst and graben system that is slowly subsiding between a still-shifting fault system ; however, the estuary system is vast compared to the present flow of the four small rivers that enter the bay, in the northeast, the Taunton River and in the northwest, the Providence and Seekonk Rivers, along with the Pawtuxet River from the west.

Santa Clarita Valley is also connected to other valleys such as the Antelope Valley by Antelope Valley Freeway and Soledad Canyon ( going northeast ), and the Santa Clara River Valley by State Route 126 ( going west ).

The largest tributary of the Great Salt Lake, it drains a mountainous area and farming valleys northeast of the lake and southeast of the Snake River Plain.

A farming, quarrying and light industrial town situated at the heart of three valleys in the Pays de Caux, some northeast of Le Havre.

The rim to the northeast barely survives, and the rim here is low and scarred by valleys and old craters.

It has a northeast to southwest orientation, and is cut by a network of deep valleys with wide, flat floors.

At the time, goods from the Mississippi and Ohio valleys had to go by riverboat to New Orleans and then via coastal steamships around the Florida Keys to get to the big population centers in the northeast.

The north and northeast of the district is forest-covered, and contains numerous valleys and ravines, which unite in one large stream called the Naweng River.

Prior to modern development, Montclair was geographically demarcated by two creek valleys, one on the northeast and one on the southwest, that both run mostly east to west from the top of the Oakland hills down to the valley formed by the Hayward Fault and beyond.

Boulder grooves ( large stone sorted stripes two to four meters wide and eighty meters long ), till ridges and numerous glacial valleys, such as the Togona Valley on the northeast facing slopes of the Sanetti Plateau, provide evidence of the ice-age effects on the landscape of BMNP.

The farthest expansion of the Rhône glacier to the northeast is indicated by way the western Swiss Plateau valleys trend: The valleys of the Broye and the Glâne as well as lake Murten, lake Neuchâtel, and lake Biel that trend all northeast, parallel to the Jura and to the Alps.

Pkhovi (), also known as Pkhoet ' i ( ფხოეთი ), is a medieval term for the mountainous district in northeast Georgia comprising the latter-day provinces of Pshavi and Khevsureti along the upper reaches of the Aragvi, and in three alpine valleys just north of the main crest of the Greater Caucasus ( today's Dusheti district, Mtskheta-Mtianeti region ).