636 résultats pour "riva"
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River.
IV RIVER PATTERNS River patterns, or general shapes, depend on the geologic zone and the climate of the location. There are four river patterns: meandering, braided, anastomosing, andstraight. A meandering pattern follows a winding, turning course. A braided pattern has connected channels that resemble a hair braid. An anastomosing river patterncombines features of the meandering and braided patterns. Some river patterns are simply straight channels. Meandering and braided are the most common...
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River - Geography.
IV RIVER PATTERNS River patterns, or general shapes, depend on the geologic zone and the climate of the location. There are four river patterns: meandering, braided, anastomosing, andstraight. A meandering pattern follows a winding, turning course. A braided pattern has connected channels that resemble a hair braid. An anastomosing river patterncombines features of the meandering and braided patterns. Some river patterns are simply straight channels. Meandering and braided are the most common...
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River - geography.
In very large rivers, the water comes from rain that may have fallen as far as 6,000 km (4,000 mi) away. During the journey through rills and streams, the water’s flowmay erode and deposit sediment in the river’s channel and on its floodplain ( see Erosion; Deposit). The biggest rivers usually carry the largest amount of sediment. Yet some of the largest rivers may carry very little sediment because the watershed may not have a lot of sediment. A river carries the most sediment when the flow is...
- St. Lawrence (river) - Geography. I INTRODUCTION St. Lawrence (river) (French Saint-Laurent), river
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St. Lawrence (river) - geography.
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St. Lawrence River, Québec
Québec, a name
The St. Lawrence Valley was once home to the Iroquois, Algonquin, Huron, Mohawk, Abenaki, and Montagnais peoples. The first European to visit the St. Lawrence Riverwas the French explorer Jacques Cartier, in 1535. The first permanent European settlement on the St. Lawrence was established at the site of present-day Québec City byFrench explorer Samuel de Champlain in 1608. The river remained in French hands during the 17th and 18th centuries, when it served as the main route of the fur trade,tra...
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Mississippi (river) - geography.
by oceangoing vessels, and Baton Rouge and New Orleans are seaports. About 282 million metric tons of freight are carried on the river each year. The most importantcargoes on the river are bulk items such as coal, petroleum products, sand, gravel, and grain. The Mississippi Valley has rich alluvial soils, formed by thousands of years of erosion and deposition by the meandering river. The floodplain supports agriculture, especiallyfeed grains and soybeans in the north and cotton, groundnuts, and...
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Congo (river) - geography.
Lake BangweuluLake Bangweulu, in northeastern Zambia, drains into the Congo by way of the Luapula and Luvua rivers. Lake Bangweulu and thesurrounding swamps form an important ecosystem for many species of migratory birds.Christine Osborne Pictures The Congo’s remotest headstreams rise in northern Zambia and southern DRC, in elevations ranging from 1,000 to 2,000 m (3,000 to 7,000 ft) above sea level. Theseheadstreams are broken by many rapids and therefore cannot be used for commercial navigatio...
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Congo (river) - Geography.
region as Portuguese territory, leaving a marble shaft on the riverbank as proof of his discovery. To Europeans the river became known as the Rio de Padrão (Pillar River). The Kongo king welcomed Cam and subsequent Portuguese explorers and established friendly trading relations with the Portuguese. More than 300 yearselapsed before serious exploration of the Congo was undertaken. Francisco José de Lacerda, a Portuguese explorer, reached the copper-rich Katanga region from the east in 1798, as...
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Amazon (river) - geography.
5,000 indigenous groups remain today in Peru, but few are untouched by the outside world.Alison Wright/Corbis The Amazon watershed includes the largest and wettest tropical plain in the world. Heavy rains drench much of the densely forested lowland region throughout the year butespecially between January and June. Seasonal variation in rainfall is reflected by the width, rate of flow, and discharge volume of the river. During the months of maximumprecipitation, broad areas traversed by the Amazo...
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Colorado (river, North America) - geography.
Grand Canyon and the Colorado RiverA scenic lookout on the edge of the Grand Canyon provides expansive views of the gorge’s steep, multicolored walls and the ColoradoRiver below. Beginning about 6 million years ago, water erosion caused by the river, combined with the rising or upwarping of theColorado Plateau, carved the steep walls of the vast canyon.© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. The Colorado River's major upper tributaries rise in the central Rocky Mountains in Colorado and Wy...
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Colorado (river, North America) - Geography.
sometime between AD 1300 and 1400, but their descendants, the Hopi and Pueblo people, continue to farm and irrigate using the river's waters. The first European to visit the river was probably Spanish soldier and explorer Francisco de Ulloa, who explored the mouth of the Colorado in 1539. In 1540 and 1541another Spaniard, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, traveled through much of the region around the Colorado River. An exploring party from the Coronado expedition,led by Garcia López de Cárdenas,...
- Styx, River Greek The principle river, or system of rivers, in Hades, the Greek Underworld (1); named for the goddess who carried the same name, Styx.
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Latin American Painting
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Diego Rivera Museum Gallery
The studio of Mexican painter Diego Rivera is now maintained as an art museum in Mexico City.
The Viceroy Arrives at PotosíThe discovery of silver on a hillside near the town of Potosí in 1545 turned this Bolivian city into a key Spanish possessionin the Americas. The population of Potosí shot up until it reached 150,000 inhabitants by the year 1611. The work shownhere, The Viceroy Arrives at Potosí, by 17th-century Bolivian painter Melchor Pérez de Holguín, was painted during thezenith of the town’s fortunes.Archivo Fotografico Oronoz From about 1580 to 1650 European styles became domin...
- Cedar Rapids 1 PRÉSENTATION Cedar Rapids, ville des États-Unis, située sur les rives de la Cedar River -- affluent du Mississippi --, dans l'est de l'Iowa.
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- Missouri (river) - Geography.
- Minthe (Menthe) Greek A naiad, or river nymph of the Cocytus, a river that flowed to the underworld.
- Rivera, José Fructuoso
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Mississippi (river) - Geography.
Contributed By:William H. RenwickMicrosoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
- Snake River.
- Amazon (river) - Geography.
- Rivas, duc de - écrivain.
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- Missouri (river) - geography.
- Colorado River - geographie.
- Riva, Luigi - sport.
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Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Miguel
charge ni des parents vivant au foyer. • De quel revenu s'agit-il ? Le plafond de ressources est comparé au revenu net imposable de l'année précédant l'établis sement des droits. Or ceux-ci sont établis à comp ter de chaque 1" juillet. Ainsi, pour les prestations allant du 1 ., juillet 1993 au 30 juin 1994, les plafonds de ressources ont été comparés aux ressources de l'année 1992. Le revenu est le revenu net, après abattem...
- Rivera, Gianni - sport.
- ZAC PARIS RIVE GAUCHE
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Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja Miguel
Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)Miguel Primo de Rivera Y Orbaneja1870-1930 Héritier d'une grande famille andalouse de militaires, issu lui-même de l'académie militaire de Madrid, sa carrière futaussi brillante que rapide. Un des plus fameux joueurs d'Espagne, galant bretteur ce général, le plus jeune del'armée, était méprisé pour sa conduite privée et peu aimé à cause de la rapidité de sa carrière. Capitaine général dela Nouvelle-Castille (1920), il entra au Sénat comme représentant de Cadix. Re...
- Cauca Riv.
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- Diego Rivera
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AMI-JEAN DE LA RIVE de Liotard
' A ~ .. l' - ~ - 0 ..,. .. -' - . "· ) .. . . ' . "'"·~~~· ... :·)~(:: - ~ ·." . ' AMI-JEAN DE lA RIVE Vers 1758 Peintre suisse Anal ys e ....., Ce pastel représente le magistrat et conseil ler genevois Ami-Jean de la Rive, le buste de profil et la tête tournée de front vers le specta teur. Il porte une veste marron ornée de pare ments et de boutons. Ses mains sont enveloppées dans un manchon en fourrure tachetée et...
- MYSTIC RIVER
- Diego Rivera.
- Primo de Rivera, José Antonio
- Red River Rebellion - Canadian History.
- Don Álvaro ou la Force du destin [duc de Rivas] - fiche de lecture.
- Don Álvaro ou la Force du destin [duc de Rivas] - Fiche de lecture.
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- Aar ou Aare Riv.
- Rivera, Diego - vie et oeuvre du peintre.
- José Diego Rivera, Flower Day
- Le personnage de LÉONORE de Rivas
- Caroní (río) Riv.
- Rives, Jean-Pierre - sport.
- Tarn. rivière du sud-ouest de la France, affluent de rive
- « Les rives s'éloignent. Ma mort approche » écrit Albert Cohen. Selon vous l'écriture autobiographique est-elle une manière de se préparer à la mort ou de conserver la saveur de la vie ? Vous répondrez en vous appuyant sur les textes du corpus ou sur les autres oeuvres que vous avez lus ou étudiées.
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- Israéliens et Palestiniens redéfinissent le calendrier d'application des accords de Wye River
- FLANEUR DES DEUX RIVES (Le). de Guillaume Apollinaire