interfluvial

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  • adjective Situated between rivers.

Examples

  • The Park comprises an interfluvial peneplain of schist and granite between the Comoé and Volta rivers, with a mean altitude of 250 m to 300 m and a series of ridges and granite inselbergs rising to 600 m.

    Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire

  • This interfluvial ecoregion is bound by the Solimões River (Amazon) to the south and the Japurá and Caquetá Rivers to the north.

    Solimões-Japurá moist forest

  • No common name has ever included all its parts, both the interfluvial region and the districts beyond Tigris; but since the term _Mesopotamia_, though obviously incorrect, is generally understood nowadays to designate it, this name may be used for want of a better.

    The Ancient East

Note

The word 'interfluvial' comes from the prefix 'inter-' (between) and 'fluvial', from a Latin word meaning 'river'.