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Answer for the clue "Located along a large stream ", 8 letters:
riverine

Word definitions for riverine in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1849, from river + -ine (1). French form riverain is attested from 1858.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to rivers, or located on or by a river

Usage examples of riverine.

Her voice was all the more effective because they had to listen carefully to hear her when it dropped into its lowest registers, though when she spoke excitedly it fairly sang across the night, cutting through the riverine rattling as if the Blabbermouth were an ordinary stream.

Problem was, even though Chau Doc sat right on the Bassac River, which ran all the way northwest to Phnom Penh, it was about seventy-five miles from Bmh Thuy, and the Navy had no riverine operations anywhere close.

Mungo had traveled in that riverine empire, plagues had raged, and peoples had fled and perished.

French, though not representing the French Crown, at least not openlydispatched to the west a number of heavily armed, heavily manned large galleons to cruise for prizes of opportunity, mount raids on coastal and riverine settlements, and suchlike.

Shadowspots has found a place where barefoot men pulled canoes or pirogues ashore on a little riverine beach and had themselves a meal of raw fish and a raw moccasin, leaving behind bones from the snake but not the head.

These fossil riverbeds, like Nirgal Vallis, Warrego Valles, Protva Valles, Patana Valles, or Oltis Vallis, were narrow sinuous canyons, true riverine canyons rather than grabens or fossae.

These mountains covered an extensive land area, and even a trivial average loss, if applied over that total area, would require much riverine action to carry the eroded materials away.

With nothing better to do, I spent many happy hours bird-watching, and the event in question occurred late one afternoon when I was making my way through a riverine forest in search of the Long-billed Curlew.

There were a few patches of riverine jungle left in the interior of San Gabriel, but most-like this-had been cut over for mahogany and tropical cedar, and then the slopes farmed until the soil ran down into the streams.