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Then you'll enjoy this "guide" from /r/imaginarymaps: https://i.imgur.com/Vy0FS8F.png https://i.imgur.com/Vy0FS8F.png
by Svip 8y ago
Then you'll enjoy this "guide" from /r/imaginarymaps: https://i.imgur.com/Vy0FS8F.png https://i.imgur.com/Vy0FS8F.png
- icebraining 8y agoThe "rivers never split" rule is BS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_bifurcation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_bifurcation
- dmos62 8y agoYeah, that's a weird thing to be wrong about. There's an abundance of cities built on where multiple rivers meet.
- AllegedAlec 8y agoThat's two rivers merging, not splitting.
- dmos62 8y agoNot in terms of the "guide" linked to. It looks at rivers as something creeping up from the ocean to higher lands. It's a perspective where a river travels upstream, even if it flows downstream, if that makes sense. The author is saying two streams travelling up never split, only merge. I'm saying they do split [0]. An upstream split is a downstream merge. [0] https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/45.7293/4.8128 https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/45.7293/4.8128
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- arethuza 8y agoPlenty cities are located where rivers meet, however I'm struggling to think of any where a major river splits?
- almostarockstar 8y agoStaten Island could be seen as between two ends of the Hudson.
- dmurray 8y agoAlexandria and Cairo are at the Nile delta.
- jcranmer 8y agoThe Mississippi River merges/splits with the Red River/Atchafalaya River at the Old River Control Structure. The Orinoco River and Rio Negro are connected via a distributary, although this is the upper reaches of both rivers. Deltas are commonly very large and involve several streams. The mouth of the Amazon River is more or less 100 miles distant. And the Brahamaputra and Ganges river delta involves 100s of channels that more or less crisscoss the entirety of Bangladesh.
- saagarjha 8y agoI'm pretty sure the image is satire that happens to provide a semi-workable description of how watersheds work.
- empath75 8y agoDid you actually read it? Everything in it is wrong.
- wtracy 8y agoThe only instances I know of rivers naturally splitting is in river deltas. These form from sediment accumulating at what was once a single river mouth. The islands in a delta have consistent properties: they are flat, consist of soil and silt rather than rock, and are usually marshy. Anything that deviates from these rules is usually wrong. Rivers don't split around two sides of a mountain, for example.