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Characteristics of Rivers and Flow Regimes

Rivers are continuous currents of water that flow into seas or other rivers or lakes. A river's course is divided into upriver, midriver, and downriver sections, and is the path the river takes through its channel or terrain. Spanish rivers typically travel a short distance from their source to their mouth. A river's flow regime is the change in its water flow throughout the year, with higher flows in winter and lower flows in summer. A watershed is the area of land through which rivers drain into the same sea, and Spanish rivers belong to three main watersheds.

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Characteristics of Rivers and Flow Regimes

Rivers are continuous currents of water that flow into seas or other rivers or lakes. A river's course is divided into upriver, midriver, and downriver sections, and is the path the river takes through its channel or terrain. Spanish rivers typically travel a short distance from their source to their mouth. A river's flow regime is the change in its water flow throughout the year, with higher flows in winter and lower flows in summer. A watershed is the area of land through which rivers drain into the same sea, and Spanish rivers belong to three main watersheds.

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The characteristics of the rivers

What is a river?
Rivers are continuous currents of water.
Rivers flow into the sea. Rivers flow into other rivers.

Rivers flow into lakes.

sea

river lake river river

river

Characteriscs of the rivers: channels

the Course

upriver midriver downriver course

The course is the path of the river The channel is the terrain a river flows through.
A rivers course is divided into:

upriver

midriver

downriver

Spanish rivers source

Short distance

mouth

Spanish rivers travel a short distance from their sources to their mouth.

WATER FLOW The water flow is the amount of water a river carries.
How much water is there?

A lot of water

A little water

Flow regime
What is the difference? Low water level is called ebb tide High water level

No water
The flow increases during the winter. The flow decreases during the summer.

A flow regime is the change in a rivers water flow during a year.

Whats a watershed?
A watershed is the area of land through which rivers flow in the same sea.

Spanish watershed

Spanish rivers belong to three 1 Cantabrian watershed Watersheds.

2 Atlantic Watershed.

3 Mediterranean watershed

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