Why Doesn’t the River Run?

Is this a river or a channel? It's the River Walk.

Regia Marinho
3 min readMay 20, 2022
San Antonio, Texas. Photo by the author.

I can stay all day looking at the water.

A river is a natural flowing watercourse, flowing toward an ocean, sea, lake, or another river.

In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water.

A channel is an area that contains flowing water confined by banks. The channel is the physical confine of a river.

Do rivers ever stop moving?

In a natural, wild river, the water runs freely. But in more developed or degraded rivers, dams and other structures can slow or stop a river’s flow.

When a river’s flow is blocked, migratory fish can suffer, unable to move up or downstream.

I was in a city in Texas where apparently a river does not run.

What is a small river called?

Small rivers can be referred to using names such as stream, creek, brook, or rivulet.

Why do rivers never run out?

The river drops the sand and pebbles that it carried when it reaches a delta. Why don’t…

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Regia Marinho

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