* Central Anatolian steppe: These dry grasslands cover the drier valleys and surround the saline lakes of central Anatolia, and include halophytic ( salt tolerant ) plant communities.

A few Southern Interior valleys have short cold winters with infrequent heavy snow, while those in the Cariboo, the southern part of the Central Interior, are colder because of their altitude and latitude, but without the intensity or duration experienced at similar latitudes elsewhere in Canada.

* The San Juan Valley and Plain of Azua are big valleys south of the Cordillera Central with altitude from 0 to 600 m.

In the western sector, China claimed portions of the 41, 000 km² Pamir Mountains area, a region of soaring mountain peaks and glacia filled valleys where the borders of Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Soviet Union, and China meet in Central Asia.

In the southwest, ridges and valleys rise gradually to merge with the Central Highlands, giving a dissected appearance to the plain.

Tajikistan is the wettest of the Central Asian republics, with the average annual precipitation for the Kafiristan and Vakhsh valleys in the south being around, and up to in the mountains.

Another branch migrated along the fertile river valleys of the Danube and Rhine into Central and North Europe.

Irkutsk Oblast consists mostly of the hills and broad valleys of the Central Siberian Plateau and of its eastern extension, the Patom Plateau.

In French, the adjective derived from the river is rhodanien, as in le sillon rhodanien ( literally " the furrow of the Rhone "), which is the name of the long, straight Saône and Rhone river valleys, a deep cleft running due south to the Mediterranean and separating the Alps from the Massif Central.

From a geomorphological perspective it is divided into the Western, Central and Eastern Ore Mountains, separated by the valleys of the Schwarzwasser and Zwickauer Mulde and the Flöha (" Flöha Line "), the division of the western section along the River Schwarzwasser is of a more recent date.

In 1968 American anthropologist Johan Reinhard located a few of the last surviving Kusunda near Gorkha in Central Nepal, and in 1969 and 1975 he found further members in Dang and Surkhet valleys in western Nepal, collecting basic linguistic and ethnographic data ( see references below ).

The term Coast Range is used by the United States Geological Survey to refer only to the ranges south from the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Washington to the California-Mexico border ; and only the ranges west of Puget Sound, the Willamette valley, the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys or ' California Central Valley ' ( thereby excluding the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges ), and the Mojave ( High ) and Sonoran ( Low ) Deserts.

The Camunic language is an extinct language which was spoken in the first millennium BC in the Valcamonica and Valtellina valleys of the Central Alps.

It is found throughout the: Sierra Nevada and Coast Ranges foothills that ring the Central, San Joaquin and interior valleys ; the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges ; and Mojave Desert sky islands.

The Karachay nation, as well as its brother nation, the Balkars, took the valleys and foothills of the Central Caucasus in the water gaps of the Kuban, Big Zelenchuk River, Malka, Baksan, Cherek and others.

* Great Basin Desert, a large area of the Great Basin which includes the Nevada salt deserts, 12 ecoregions in the Basin and Range valleys of Nevada ; and the Central Nevada Desert, a hydrologic basin of several Nevada counties having < annual precipitation

The Governor Edmund G. Brown California Aqueduct is a system of canals, tunnels, and pipelines that conveys water collected from the Sierra Nevada Mountains and valleys of Northern-and Central California to Southern California.

The Tiers form the border between the fertile valleys of eastern Tasmania, and the high, rocky, sparsely inhabited and infertile Central Plateaux.

The subarea commonly called Central Mexico, covering valleys and mountainous areas surrounding the Valley of Mexico, originally contained mostly northern Oto-Manguean ( Oto-Pamean ) languages ; however, beginning in the late classic these languages were gradually displaced by Nahuatl, which is now the predominant indigenous language of the area.

Montia perfoliata ) is a fleshy annual plant native to the western mountain and coastal regions of North America from southernmost Alaska and central British Columbia south to Central America, but most common in California in the Sacramento and northern San Joaquin valleys.

The growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy began as an alliance between the communities of the valleys in the Central Alps to facilitate the management of common interests such as free trade and to ensure the peace along the important trade routes through the mountains.

The terrain was quite different from the previous ground covered ; the Somerset Central had originally crossed the Somerset levels, and the southerly sections had followed undulating ground in river valleys.

Mollisols occur in savannahs and mountain valleys ( such as Central Asia, or the North American Great Plains ).

The Caucasian honey bee originates from the high valleys of the Central Caucasus.

The plateau slopes moderately to east and south, its remarkably uniform surface interrupted only by the narrow valleys carved by the westward-flowing tributaries of the Río Paraná.

Having achieved this end, he was able to buy 116,000 square miles in the valleys of the Red and Assiniboine rivers.

In general, rivers have not cut valleys to the sea in the western part of the region.

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

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

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.

These other rivers are important, not as transportation routes, but because of the broad fertile valleys they have produced.

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 Kansas and Missouri rivers cut wide valleys into the terrain when the glaciers melted and drained.

Flat are northern and central areas of the province – around Tarnobrzeg, Stalowa Wola, Radom and Siedlce, also valleys of the main rivers – the Vistula, the Pilica, and the San.

He describes the meteorological character of the sky, the planets and constellations, the sun and moon, the lunar phases indicating seasons and rain, the anwa ( heavenly bodies of rain ), and atmospheric phenomena such as winds, thunder, lightning, snow, floods, valleys, rivers, lakes, wells and other sources of water.

Mindanao contains two large inland lowland areas, the valleys of the Agusan and Mindanao rivers in Agusan and Cotabato Provinces, respectively.

In the valleys, perennially flowing rivers teemed with fish and were bordered by seed-bearing grasslands.

They are believed to dwell in mountains and groves, by springs and rivers, and also in trees and in valleys and cool grottoes.

Geographical factors such as rivers and runoff begins to create the V-shaped valleys between the mountains ( the stage called " youth ").

The region differs from the southern coast by the presence of shrubs, equotorial dry forests, mangrove forests, tropical valleys near rivers such as the Chira and the Tumbes, and is blessed with clear, sunny skies for most of the year.

Clear skies, beautiful warm valleys, eroded terrains with reddish colored sands, rice fields, palm trees, savannas, bushy forests, dense rivers, beautiful warm turquoise beaches, orangey or yellowish terrains, clearer sands and a sun that hits like the African plateau,

They are deeply fragmented by longitudinal and transverse valleys and crossed by several major rivers.

Numerous passes and the valleys of the Olt, Jiu, and Danube rivers provide routes for roads and railways through the mountains.

A short coastal strip on the Adriatic Sea, an alpine mountain region adjacent to Italy and Austria, mixed mountain and valleys with numerous rivers to the east.

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.

In general, rivers have not cut valleys to the sea in the western part of the region.

Tornadoes have been known to cross major rivers, climb mountains, affect valleys, and have damaged several city centers.

The army stretched to 1000 li or about 410 kilometers across rivers and valleys, over mountains and hills.

In the early 4th century, the Bulgars would have been caught up in the Hunnic migrations, moving to the fertile lands along the lower valleys of the rivers Donets and Don and the Azov seashore, and assimilating some remainders of the Sarmatians