A river, wide as the Missouri, where it ran by his place.

Barcelona is located on the northeast coast of the Iberian Peninsula, facing the Mediterranean Sea, on a plain approximately wide limited by the mountain range of Collserola, the Llobregat river to the southwest and the Besòs river to the north.

In recent years, however, the ecological importance of the river has warranted a vast restoration effort, and the river today has a wide variety of economical and recreational uses.

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.

alt = A river flowing through a wide valley

* Inland waterway, a body of water, such as a river, canal or lake, is navigable if it is deep, wide and slow enough for a vessel to pass.

The Irrawaddy, the main river of Burma, flows from north to south through the Central Burma Basin and ends in a wide delta.

At the town of Mera, shortly before reaching Puyo, the river exits the mountains and flows into a wide valley, becoming wider and shallower.

Within the Holy Roman Empire these territories gained a wide range of independence, threatened, however, by the French kings, who sought, from the 17th century onwards, to incorporate all the territories on the western side of the river Rhine and repeatedly invaded the area in 1635, in 1676, in 1679 and in 1734, extending their realm to the Saar River and establishing the city and stronghold of Saarlouis in 1680.

The Andalusian Plain is essentially a wide river valley through which the Río Guadalquivir flows.

Early use of inland waterway transport used the rivers, and while barges could use sails to assist their passage when winds were favourable or the river was wide enough to allow tacking, in many cases this was not possible, and gangs of men were used to bow-haul the boats.

A wide, flat valley through which a river runs is known in Scotland as a strath.

The idea seems to have originated in a spoof history essay by Professor David Daube written for The Oxford Magazine in 1956, which was widely believed despite obvious improbabilities ( e. g., planning to cross River Severn by running the ram down a hill at speed, although the river is about 30 m ( 100 feet ) wide at this point ).

In the summer of 2001, a wide sandbar formed at the mouth of the river, marking the first time in recorded history that the Rio Grande failed to empty into the Gulf of Mexico.

But when summer comes around, Telluride transforms into an outdoor recreation hot spot, with tourists visiting to enjoy a wide range of activities including but not limited to mountain biking, hiking, river rafting, sightseeing and more.

Trento lies in a wide glacial valley called the Adige valley just south of the Alps foothill range Dolomite Mountains, where the Fersina and Avisio rivers join the Adige River ( the second longest river in Italy ).

The wide bed gives an indication of the former size of the river.

The Tonghui river still exists as a wide, concrete lined storm-channel and drain for the suburbs of Beijing.

Although upstream from the confluence Vltava is longer ( against ), has larger discharge and larger drainage basin, due to historical reasons ( at the confluence the Elbe flows through prominent wide valley while the Vltava, flowing into the valley, meets the Elbe at almost a right angle, so it appears as a tributary ) the river continues as Elbe.

Before early modern nation-building, the Low Countries referred to a wide area of northern Europe as a low-lying triangular river delta for the rivers Rhine, Meuse, Scheldt, and Ems.

* Mediterranean Ridge, a wide ridge in the bed of the Mediterranean Sea

The patient is assisted by an anesthesiologist or resident to make a specific surgical position, then sterile drapes are used to cover all of the patient's body except for the head and the surgical site or at least a wide area surrounding the operating field ; the drapes are clipped to a pair of poles near the head of the bed to form an " ether screen ", which separates the anesthetist / anesthesiologist's working area ( unsterile ) from the surgical site ( sterile ).

On average the falls, which flow over a resistant sandstone bed, are 68 feet ( 21 m ) high and 125 feet ( 38 m ) wide, with an average water flow of 3, 600 cubic feet per second ( 100 m³ / s ).

:* a concrete road bed wide and thick to support loads of per wheel

The bed is approximately 32 miles long by one and one half miles wide and 400 feet deep.

Among other attractions, the Town of Rock Hall is now home port to a wide variety of award winning marinas, marine services, restaurants, fishing and sailing charters, kayak rentals, bed and breakfasts, wild life refuge, new and used sail and power boat dealerships and more.

Runway dimensions vary from as small as long and wide in smaller general aviation airports, to long and wide at large international airports built to accommodate the largest jets, to the huge x lake bed runway 17 / 35 at Edwards Air Force Base in California – a landing site for the retired Space Shuttle.

* The penetrating partner sits on edge of a bed or chair with feet spread wide on floor.

According to this story, for as long as he could remember he spent his life totally alone in a darkened cell about two metres long, one metre wide and one and a half high with only a straw bed to sleep on and a horse carved out of wood for a toy.

The fluidized bed boilers have a wide capacity range-0. 5 T / hr to over 100 T / hr.

The creek now ends at Stonehouse Bridge ( for many years a toll bridge ) and to the north east the wide river bed which led up past Millbridge to Pennycomequick and beyond to the bottom of Ford Park Cemetery, has been reclaimed and infilled to provide the playing fields of Victoria Park, rugby pitches for Devonport High School for Boys, and nearest the bridge a large hardstanding used several days a week for Plymouth's biggest car boot sales.

For most of its length, the Hutt is a shallow and sometimes braided river in a wide rocky bed ( see picture ), but in the Kaitoke gorge the river flows directly over bedrock and approaching the mouth at Petone the river is narrower and the banks steeper.

The rules agreed at these meetings are wide ranging-from agreeing on acceptable bed times to making nudity allowed around the pool and within the classroom.

There is a wide selection of hotels, bed and breakfast, self-catering and camping accommodation and the visitor will find all one is likely to need in the busy local shops.

The city lies almost entirely on the western edge of the hills along the Lechleite, where the river Lech has formed a wide bed from glacial melt water.

Fedotov awoke in the early hours of July 25 to an unusual silence, and found Vysotsky dead in his bed with his eyes wide open, apparently of a myocardial infarction, as he later certified.

Ravenna Boulevard and its wide, grassy median were constructed over the creek bed.

In the end, his son Tom Lane, said he was talking with his father at 9 p. m. on the evening of Monday, July 9, 2007, " He was lying in bed with his eyes real wide open.

The canal follows the natural bed of Bundidgerry Creek and in places spreads wide and has no levee banks.

Describing the back garden, Harrison wrote it had " a one-foot wide flower bed, a toilet, a dustbin fitted to the back wall ( and ) a little hen house where we kept cockerels.

The granite stream bed is from 3 to 6 m ( 10 to 20 ft ) wide, is quite shallow and is laid out on a gently sloping portion of the park, so that water pumped to the top of the oval flows down either side.

The Wisconsin River is a wide and shallow stream running over a bed of sand with transparent waters and chequered with numerous small islands and sandbars … The navigation of the river is considerably impeded by the sandbars and small islands and some time is lost is searching for the proper channel.