Rivers

Rivers

A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river.

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Biomes

Water bodies; Rivers

Are climatically and geographically defined as similar climatic conditions on the Earth, such as communities of plants, animals, and soil organisms, and are often referred to as ecosystems. Some ...

A body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as a branch, brook, beck, burn, creek, crick, ...

Riparian zone

Water bodies; Rivers

The interface between land and a river or stream. Riparian is also the proper nomenclature for one of the fifteen terrestrial biomes of the earth. Plant habitats and communities along the river ...

Zaire

Water bodies; Rivers

River beginning in Zambia as the Chambeshi and flowing through the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Atlantic Ocean. It is the deepest river in the world, with measured depths in excess of ...

Congo

Water bodies; Rivers

Rising in Zambia as the Chambeshi and flowing through the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Atlantic Ocean. It is the deepest river in the world, with measured depths in excess of 230 m ...

Irtish

Water bodies; Rivers

With a length of 2,640 miles (4,248 km), it is one of the continent's longest rivers. The Irtysh and the Ob River, of which the Irtysh is the principal tributary, together constitute the world's ...

Sao Francisco

Water bodies; Rivers

The largest river wholly within Brazil, it flows north and east across the great Central Plateau for about 1,811 mi (2,914 km) to its mouth on the Atlantic Ocean. The upper river valley is an area of ...