riverway
Navigable river path
A riverway is a river as a route for travel or transportation, emphasizing its function as a passage rather than just a body of water.
The term highlights navigability: The riverway connected inland settlements to coastal ports.
It can also refer to the channel or corridor a river follows through a landscape.
Steady continuous flow
- creekNarrow natural watercourse
- tributaryStream entering larger river
- channelPassage for transmission
- brookSmall flowing watercourse
arroyo · beck · burn · rill · runnel · freshet · bourn · kill
Place holding deposits
- shoreLand bordering water
- deltaSymbol denoting variation
- estuaryTidal mixing zone
- confluenceMeeting point of streams
meander · oxbow · headwaters · floodplain · watershed · cutbank · alluvium · streambank
Passage for transmission
stream
Steady continuous flow
brook · arroyo · beck · burn · rill · runnel · freshet · bourn · kill · gulch
bank
Place holding deposits
confluence · meander · oxbow · headwaters · floodplain · watershed · cutbank · alluvium · streambank · embankment
channel
Passage for transmission
portage · buoy · canoe · kayak · raft · barge · paddle · oar · boat · vessel
current
Directed flow of charge
eddy · turbulence · drift · surge · trickle · swirl · spate · gush · discharge · flux
wetlands
Water-saturated terrain
migratory · spawning · biodiversity · fauna · flora · ecotone · invertebrates · algae · sediment · heron
- public landsnational park, public lands, public land, national forest, state park
riverwaycanal
Dug water passage
aqueduct · drainage ditch · irrigation canal · lock · spillway