Sentence examples for important tributary of from inspiring English sources
The Belaya is the largest tributary of the Kama River, which is itself an important tributary of the Volga.
It is crossed from east to west by the Guadiana River, the most important tributary of which is the Zújar.
The river, an important tributary of the lower Rhine, rises on the north side of Winterberg and flows 146 mi (235 km) west past Witten (the head of navigation), Essen, and Mülheim to enter the Rhine at Duisburg.
Bayou Lafourche, a major Cajun settlement, was once an important tributary of the Mississippi, but was cut off from the river by a dam in the early 20th century, depriving the vital wetlands of nourishment.
It rises in the Pennines in the administrative county of North Yorkshire and then flows 60 miles (97 km) southeast to become an important tributary of the River Ouse (which drains into the Humber, an estuary of the North Sea) a few miles south of York.
An important tributary of the Yukon River, it rises from two headstreams, the Chisana and Nabesna rivers on the north side of the Alaska Range, and it flows some 570 miles (915 km) from the head of the Chisana northwestward along the base of the Alaska Range to join the Yukon River near the village of Tanana.
Important tributaries of the Ganges include the Yamuna and the Kosi; the latter's extremely low gradient often leads to severe floods and course changes.
After entering the fertile lowlands of Aquitaine, passing through Albi, capital of Tarn département, the Tarn is joined below Montauban by an important tributary, the Aveyron.
The Tigris, all of whose tributaries are on its left (east) bank, runs close to the high Zagros Mountains, from which it receives a number of important tributaries, notably the Great Zab, the Little Zab, and the Diyālā.
The Meghna river is one of the most important tributaries in the country.
