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Yeah, that's a weird thing to be wrong about. There's an abundance of cities built on where multiple rivers meet.
by dmos62 8y ago
Yeah, 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.