Someone asked me this question today and I could not remember the grade school answer for this! She was specifically talking about a point where one river flows into another flowing the opposite direction, I don't know if that would make the name different.
2007-09-17 03:31:22 · 6 answers · asked by Nate 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
It's called a CONFLUENCE.
"Confluence, in geography, describes the meeting of two or more bodies of water. It usually refers to the point where a tributary joins a more major river, called the mainstem, when that major river is also the highest order stream in the drainage basin."
2007-09-17 03:43:15 · answer #1 · answered by marcelino angelo (BUSY) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Confluence, in geography, describes the assembly of two or greater bodies of water. it often refers back to the component the place a tributary joins a greater substantial river. The German city call Koblenz shows, in Germanicized form, its internet site on the confluence of the Rhine and the Mosel.[a million] The time era is extensively utilized to describe the assembly of tidal or different non-riverine bodies of water, including 2 canals[2] or a canal and a lake.[3] A one-mile (a million.6 km) element of the business Canal in New Orleans comprises the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal; ergo those 3 waterways are confluent there.
2017-01-02 07:27:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A confluence.
2007-09-17 03:38:35 · answer #3 · answered by dardekkis 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The other answers (confluence) are right, but you also can use
► FORK ◄(is more colloquial)
2007-09-17 04:16:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
confluence
2007-09-17 06:35:40 · answer #5 · answered by rosie recipe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
could it be confluence
2007-09-17 03:39:53 · answer #6 · answered by seatonwasp 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋