Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment (hierarchy name)
4. Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name)
5. landscapes (environments)
6. natural landscapes
7. bodies of water (natural)
8. bodies of freshwater
9. [bodies of freshwater by biome]
10. riverine bodies of water

Narrower term/s

• anabranches
• distributaries (streams)
• tributaries (streams)

Anotations

Scope note:

General term for natural courses of water flowing continuously along a defined bed on the surface of the earth, forming a river, rivulet, brook, etc. The term is not used for canals or other artificial watercourses.