Dry river

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Dry river (wadi) in Israel

Dry river (Rivier) in Namibia

Dry river , also episodic or ephemeral river , describes a river that falls dry for a long time and only rarely carries water.

This includes rivers that carry water during the rainy season (periodically) or when there is occasional precipitation (episodic). Sections of the river that are affected by ebb do not count as dry rivers.

Occurrence

Dry rivers can be found in many desert areas and other regions of the continents with very little rainfall .

Depending on the continent / country, dry rivers are named differently, for example in

• Australia : Creek
• Asia :
  • Middle East : Wadi
• Africa
  • Northern Africa : Wadi
  • Southern Africa (only in Namibia and South Africa ): Rivier
• Europe (in Spain ): Rambla

See also

• Intermittent waters
• Torrente (torrent)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stefan Engelberg, Doris Stolberg (ed.): Linguistics and colonial language contact: Linguistic encounters and disputes. Akademie, Berlin 2012, pp. 293–309, here under the heading Rivier, p. 306 .
2. ↑ Helmut Herrmann , Herbert Bucksch : Dictionary Geotechnical Engineering / Geotechnical Engineering Dictionary. 2nd Edition. Springer Science + Business Media , Heidelberg / New York / Dordrecht / London 2014, ISBN 978-3-642-41714-6 , p. 476, keyword “ephemeral stream”, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-41714-6_51376 , and p. 1151, keyword “dry river”.
3. ↑ Traugott Molter: Water balance and irrigation agriculture in the Cape . Franz Steiner Verlag , Wiesbaden 1966, pp. 15, 26, 29, 35, 80