After three weeks' swift sailing, however, the ship entered an area of shallow marshes and river deltas.

It is used occasionally when it is necessary to limit the turning circle as the yacht swings when it is anchored, such as in a very narrow river or a deep pool in an otherwise shallow area.

The area is agriculturally poor except in the river valleys, being rough and mountainous towards the south, but subsiding into undulating wastes and pasture-lands towards the Karakum Desert.

The river originates on Mount Falterona in the Casentino area of the Apennines, and initially takes a southward curve.

Northern Bosnia contains very fertile agricultural land along the river Sava and the corresponding area is heavily farmed.

Historically the languages were spoken over a larger area: West to the mouth of the Vistula river in present-day Poland, at least as far East as the Dniepr river in present-day Belarus, perhaps even to Moscow, perhaps as far south as Kiev.

Tacitus reports that before their arrival the area had been " an uninhabited district on the extremity of the coast of Gaul, and also of a neighbouring island, surrounded by the ocean in front, and by the river Rhine in the rear and on either side " ( Tacitus, Historiae iv. 12 ).

Archaeological findings in the Sarawak river delta reveal that the area was once a thriving trading centre between India and China from the 500's until about 1300 AD.

Despite such diversity, it is possible to classify the indigenous people into three major cultural groups: the northern people, who developed rich handicrafts and were influenced by pre-Incan cultures ; the Araucanian culture, who inhabited the area between the river Choapa and the island of Chiloé, and lived primarily off agriculture ; and the Patagonian culture Patagonia composed of various nomadic tribes, who supported themselves through fishing and hunting ( and who in Pacific / Pacific Coast immigration scenario would be descended partly from the most ancient settlers ).

At flood, the river becomes an area flow source, far more than a narrow confined river.

Although the Cairo metropolis extends away from the Nile in all directions, the city of Cairo resides only on the east bank of the river and two islands within it on a total area of.

The area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo was populated as early as 80, 000 years ago, as shown by the 1988 discovery of the Semliki harpoon at Katanda, one of the oldest barbed harpoons ever found, and which is believed to have been used to catch giant river catfish.

The river divides the major metropolitan areas of Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario — an area referred to as Detroit – Windsor.

The cities and communities southwest of Detroit along the American side of the river are popularly referred to as the Downriver area, because those areas are said to be " down the river " from Detroit.

Later, when the French began settling in the area, they navigated the river using canoes made of birch or elm bark.

A war with Peru ( named the Cenepa War, after a river located in the area ) erupted in January – February 1995 in a small, remote region, where the boundary prescribed by the 1942 Rio Protocol was in dispute.

Lake Nasser's waters fill the area through Lower Nubia ( Upper Egypt and northern Sudan ) within the narrow canyon between the cliffs of sandstone and granite created by the flow of the river over many centuries.

The region was first referred to as Ma ' ikele Bahr (" between the seas / rivers ," i. e. the land between the Red Sea and the Mereb river ), renamed under Emperor Zara Yaqob as the domain of the Bahr Negash, called Midri Bahri ( Tigrinya: " Sea land ," though it included some areas like Shire on the other side of the Mereb, today in Ethiopia ) until the modern day, when its name was changed to Mereb Mellash ( beyond the river Mereb ) under the rule of Yohannes IV, the locals referred to this area as Midri Bahri.

Centered around their capital at the Dnieper, the Goths ruled a vast area which at its peak under the Kings Ermanaric and Athanaric stretched from the Danube to the Volga river, and from the Black to the Baltic Sea.

After Hattusa was made capital, the area encompassed by the bend of the Halys River ( Hittite Marassantiya, ) was considered the core of the Empire, and some Hittite laws make a distinction between " this side of the river " and " that side of the river ", for example, the reward for the capture of an eloped slave after he managed to flee beyond the Halys is higher than that for a slave caught before he could reach the river.

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.

Important production centers are the Hallertau in Germany ( which, in 2006, had more hop-growing area than any other country on Earth ), the Yakima ( Washington ) and Willamette ( Oregon ) valleys, and western Canyon County, Idaho ( including the communities of Parma, Wilder, Greenleaf, and Notus ).

Water in the area flows in deeply cut valleys, and irrigation is much more difficult than it is in the lower plain.

Except for a few valleys, the mountain area proper is suitable only for grazing in the foothills and steppes ; adequate soil and rainfall, however, make cultivation possible.

Sometimes, particularly in the lower Tigris and Euphrates valleys, soil salinity restricts the area of arable land and limits the size of the community dependent on it, and it also usually results in large unsettled and uncultivated stretches between the villages.

Where the ridges between sinkholes in the plateau area have dissolved, flat-bottomed basins or valleys have been formed that are filled with terra rosa soils, some of the most productive on the island.

Hence, Roman administration never extended outside the restricted area of the northern coastal plain and valleys.

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.

The land area is composed of varying topographic features: valleys and desert account for 82 percent of the land mass ; mountain ranges, 15 percent ; and the coastal plain, 3 percent.

In addition, an enormous wadi channels water to these valleys, making the area agriculturally productive in years of good rainfall.

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.

Its area of influence slowly spread to regions between the river valleys of the Senegal and Niger.

Covering an area of, the region's terrain ranges diversely from permanent glaciers to verdant valleys, rich pasture lands and orchards, through to the arid steppe plains of the central lowlands.

A series of Native American groups inhabited the area from as early as 7000 BCE, most recently the Timbisha around 1000 AD who migrated between winter camps in the valleys and summer grounds in the mountains.

The Paiute Indians moved into the surrounding valleys and plateaus in the area around the same time that the other cultures left.

It covers a high hilltop and part of the valleys around the area.

Their tribal area included the river valleys of the Judith River ( Buluhpa ' ashe —" Plum River "), Powder River, Tongue River, Big Horn River and Wind River as well as the Bighorn Mountains ( Iisiaxpúatachee Isawaxaawúua ), Pryor Mountains ( Baahpuuo Isawaxaawúua ), Wolf Mountains ( Cheetiish —" Wolf Teeth Mountains ") and Absaroka Range ( also called Absalaga Mountains ).

The southern part of Cattaraugus County is the only area of western New York that was not covered by the last ice age glaciation and is noticeably more rugged than neighboring areas that had peaks rounded and valleys filled by the glacier.

It is a tranquil area of great natural beauty, consisting of lofty mountains, deep valleys, pastures, lakes, rolling hills and rivers.

The area has a European history dating back to the 1830s when settlers moved into the area and cleared the valleys for farming.

Trieste is divided into 8a-10a zones according to USDA hardiness zoning ; Villa Opicina ( 320 to 420 MSL ) with 8a in upper suburban area down to 10a in especially shielded and windproof valleys close to the Adriatic sea.

During the great migrations, various Germanic tribes settled and / or traversed the region using the river valleys and low passes, but about 600 CE the Slavs took possession of the area and settled assimilating the remaining autochthonous romanized population.