Confluence (geography)
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Confluence (geography)
Confluence, in
geography
, describes the meeting of two or more
bodies of water
. It usually refers to the point where a
tributary
joins a more major
river
, called the
mainstem
, when that major river is also the highest
order stream
in the
drainage basin
. The German city name
Koblenz
indicates, in Germanicized form, its site at the confluence of the
Rhine
and the
Mosel
.
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