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What causes a river?

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∙ 17y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

A river is formed when water draining from mountanous terrain or some other watershed flows into a valley via smaller streams. The streams join together and their combined volume of water forms a river with the force of the water cutting a channel as it flows downhill toward a lake, sea, or ocean.

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