Sentence examples for confluence of rivers from inspiring English sources

In contrast, native traditions conduct religious ceremonies at notable landscape features such as high cliffs, buttes, caves, springs, and the confluence of rivers, often without structures or objects.

But there is something special about the sangam, the confluence of Rivers Ganga and Yamuna [as well as the mythical Saraswati], at Allahabad.

Farther along, where the Anacostia meets the Potomac, with the Washington Monument as the backdrop and the Capitol dome visible just over the tree line, I thought of John Smith sailing up and finding this confluence of rivers in 1608.

But in years past he has conducted the water-blessing ceremony in some unlikely places, including the confluence of rivers that forms the Amazon, the melting coast of Greenland and the oily Gulf of Mexico.

The Kumbh Mela, a religious festival that is expected to draw nearly 100 million pilgrims, is in full swing near Allahabad, at the confluence of rivers that Hindus consider to be holy.

While the cities alternate holding Kumbh Mela, the festival in Allahabad, 360 miles east of New Delhi in the state of Uttar Pradesh, is considered the most blessed because it lies near the confluence of rivers held sacred by Hindus: the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mystical Saraswati.

Fig. 4 Satellite imagery of the confluence of river niger and river benue.

The confluence of river Niger and river Benue in Lokoja Nigeria, is the site proposed for intervention.

River Niger is retained as the name of the river that flows southward after the confluence of river Niger and river Benue because it's the bigger river.

This research proposes the development of the confluence of river Niger and river Benue in Nigeria as a viable international tourist center.

Even though there abound many tourist attraction centres in Lokoja, many of them are not yet harnessed, especially the confluence of river Niger and Benue.