Sentences with phrase «huge river deltas»

This area is very big and varied, huge river deltas, far - reaching savannahs, cursed ruins and sulfurous springs are among the things you can explore there.

A quarter of the land surface in this huge river delta is flooded every year.

Not exact matches

The Bennett Dam built by BC on the Peace River has done huge actual damage to one of the largest fresh water deltas in the world (The Peace — Athabasca Delta, UNESCO World Heritage Site).

Two million fishers, farmers and herders live on the inner delta of the River Niger, a huge wetland on the fringe of the Sahara.

The Okavango Delta is a phenomenal experience: The huge river just fizzles out into the desert, leaving behind a stunning landscape and amazing wildlife to explore.

All huge delta estuaries like the Ganges, the Nile, the Amazon or the River Plate are silting and thus accumulating sediment, which reduces the depth of the area under water and also gradually adds to the above - water land.

Regarding Bangladesh, there was something in the press about a year ago that said Bangladesh is actually ADDING land area, because so much dirt / glacial silt is washed down the huge rivers, and is deposited in the deltas, so that even with sea level rise, more land is created.