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A natural grass bank of the Perfume River in Huế, Vietnam An artificial lake with grass banks in Keukenhof, Netherlands. In geography, a bank is the land alongside a body of water.
Riverbank Academy, a special school in Coventry, England; Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland; Riverbank West, luxury high-rise apartment building at 560 West 43rd Street in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
A river bank can be divided into three zones: Toe zone, bank zone, and overbank area. The toe zone is the area which is most susceptible to erosion. [2] Because it is located in between the ordinary water level and the low water level, it is strongly affected by currents and erosional events. [2]
A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream. [2] In some regions, the terms riparian woodland, riparian forest, riparian buffer zone, riparian corridor, and riparian strip are used to characterize a riparian zone.
A navigable river was public (publicum) rather than common, [5] meaning that it had to kept accessible for public use and might be regulated and maintained by the state, while the riverbanks and even the riverbed could be privately owned, as long as ownership did not impede the public's use of the river. [6]
Gadot (Hebrew: גדות) is a Hebrew surname meaning riverbanks. Notable people with the name include: Gal Gadot (born 1985), Israeli actress and model; Gideon Gadot (1941–2012), Israeli journalist and politician.
Flamingos in the delta of the Po river, Italy. A river is a natural flow of freshwater that flows on or through land towards another body of water downhill. [1] This flow can be into a lake, an ocean, or another river. [1]
Kill in New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey comes from a Dutch language word meaning "riverbed" or "water channel", and can also be used for the UK meaning of 'creek'. Run in Ohio, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, or West Virginia can be the name of a stream. [24]