Sentence examples for inland plain from inspiring English sources

It is situated on an inland plain where sugarcane, fruits, and tobacco are grown and poultry and cattle are raised.

''They reached their height of popularity in the late 19th century and began to be abandoned in the mid-20th century as the workers moved to the cities.'' These caves are scattered around southern Spain, but most are found outside villages in the Altiplano, the high, inland plain in Granada.

THE Kasbah des Oudaia in Rabat stands as it has for centuries, aloof atop the cliffs overlooking the Atlantic and the Bou Regreg River, keeping watch over the mouth of the river, the inland plain and the little boats ferrying people to Sale, Rabat's gleaming white sister city on the right bank of the river.

Founded as Ariminum, she owes her importance to two straight lines: one natural, the coastline of the Adriatic; the other manmade, the Via Aemilia, an ancient Roman road designed to bring agricultural produce from the fertile inland plain of the Po to harbor and sea transportation to Rome.

One additional grove was sampled in the Carmel, three in the Inland plain and two in the semi-arid South district (a total of 32 groves) (Table  1, Figure  1).

They show inland plains crossed by rivers, always colored blue.

In contrast to the variety of the coastal area is the seeming monotony of the vast inland plains, broken occasionally by low tablelands and ranges and drained by unreliable streams that are prone to extensive flooding.

John Oxley further mapped the inland plains and rivers, especially the Lachlan and Macquarie, and also explored the southern coasts of the future Queensland (1823), while Allan Cunningham was the great pioneer of that state's hinterland (1827).

PARAPARA, Venezuela — Where Venezuela's coastal mountains give way to its vast inland plains you find Parapara, a sleepy village of colorful colonial-era houses that's blighted by poverty.

In a gargantuan piece of engineering, the flow of the Snowy River in south-eastern New South Wales has been reversed, so that instead of its water being lost to the Pacific, it now runs through tunnels dug under mountains, is then used for power generation and ultimately goes to irrigate dry inland plains.

He wrote: "Among the goldmines of the inland plains between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers [is a] fortress built of stones of marvellous size, and there appears to be no mortar joining them … This edifice is almost surrounded by hills, upon which are others resembling it in the fashioning of stone and the absence of mortar, and one of them is a tower more than 12 fathoms high".