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  1. Oct 19, 2023 · A river is a ribbon-like body of water that flows downhill from the force of gravity. A river can be wide and deep, or shallow enough for a person to wade across. A flowing body of water that is smaller than a river is called a stream, creek, or brook.

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › RiverRiver - Wikipedia

    A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually a freshwater stream, flowing on the Earth's land surface or inside caves towards another waterbody at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, sea, bay, lake, wetland, or another river.

  3. Jul 1, 2024 · river, (ultimately from Latin ripa, “bank”), any natural stream of water that flows in a channel with defined banks . Modern usage includes rivers that are multichanneled, intermittent, or ephemeral in flow and channels that are practically bankless.

  4. Oct 19, 2023 · A river is a large, natural stream of flowing water. Rivers are found on every continent and on nearly every kind of land. Some flow all year round. Others flow seasonally or during wet years. A river may be only kilometers long, or it may span much of a continent.

  5. www.nationalgeographic.com › environment › articleRivers | National Geographic

    Rivers. The steady flow of the clean, fresh water of rivers is essential to human life and a whole host of aquatic species. 3 min read. Rivers and their tributaries are the veins of the...

  6. Metro Manila, Philippines, is located in the hydraulically complex Pasig River — Marikina River — Laguna de Bay watershed, which includes more than thirty tributaries within the urban area. [1] The following list is sorted by name, with a brief description of each.

  7. 5 days ago · Manila has been the principal city of the Philippines for four centuries and is the center of its industrial development as well as the international port of entry. It is located on the island of Luzon and spreads along the eastern shore of Manila Bay.

  8. The San Juan River is one of the main river systems in Metro Manila, Philippines, and is a major tributary of the Pasig River. It begins near La Mesa Dam as the San Francisco del Monte River, which officially takes the name San Juan River when it meets with Mariblo Creek in Quezon City.

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  10. Official websites of Philippine provinces. The following is a partial list of rivers in NCR (National Capital Region).

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