Sentence examples for rivers flowing down from inspiring English sources

In the past two years the rivers flowing down to Goa on India's west coast have teemed with barges carrying iron ore bound for China.

Environmentalists say the destruction of the Andean Amazon is particularly worrisome because it affects the lifeblood for the entire Amazon, the rivers flowing down from the Andes.

Those mountains are cut up by the deep valleys and canyons of many rapid rivers flowing down to the Caspian Sea, notably the Sulak, the Samur, and the Kurakh.

Sinaloa occupies an elongated strip of territory that rises from a barren, tropical coastal plain to the Sierra Madre Occidental inland and is crossed by several large rivers flowing down from the highlands to the sea.

These cold rivers, flowing down from the glaciers and mountains of Lago Jeinimeni national reserve in Chile's Aysén region, will supply drinking water on our four-day trek into Parque Patagonia.

Only a few shrubs and some terrestrial (as distinct from epiphytic) bromeliads grow in that area, which becomes greener only in the Andean foothills, where cacti and other xerophytic plants are found, and along the valleys of rivers flowing down from the Andes.

In the south the Salée and Pilote rivers flow down from the slopes of Mount Vauclin.

The Ghaghara, the Gandak, the Baghmati, the Kosi, the Mahananda, and other rivers flow down from the Himalayas of Nepal and make their way to the Ganges in frequently changing channels.

Furthermore, the terrigenous clastic sediments carried by the Qiupen river flowed down from the Kon Tum Uplift were accumulated in the Ledong Sag, and then moved eastward, so the abundant sediment supply from the west increased the topographic gradient of the eastern Qiongdongnan Basin, accelerating effect of gravity fluid flow which led to the formation of deep straight restrictive canyon.

If the differential is large then the jet stream speeds up, and like a river flowing down a steep hill, it ploughs through any obstacles - such as areas of high pressure that might be in its way.

"The field was very soggy, but it looked like a river flowing down the third-base line," Lancaster said.