What is "headwaters"

Usage examples of "headwaters".

And with him they were soon flying north from Shell Mere, over the green sea of jungle, following the Ansuc River toward the Atun Yaku, headwaters of the Napo.

Other times it moved along near the bed of the shallow headwaters of the Chehalis River.

Kazakhstan to be kings among the Hurrians at the headwaters of the Khabur.

The Mattole Restoration Council is made up of many other groups and networks, such as the Mattole Coordinating Council whose members are the Environmental Protection Information Center, the Mattole Soil and Water Conservation Committee, the Upper Mattole Property Owners Association, the Mattole Watershed Salmon Support Group, the Mattole Watershed Taxpayers Association, the Redwoods Monastery Community, the Coastal Headwaters Association, and the Sinkyone Council.

The Mexicans worked the mines of Santa Rita near the headwaters of the Rio Mimbres in those days, and their chief was a pindah lickoyee named Johnson.

The study floor bore a scattering of tiger, lion, polar bear and other animal skins, while mounted heads of ovis poli, bighorn sheep, wapiti--trophies from numerous climes--were arrayed on the walls, together with heavy spears from the Congo, blowguns from the Amazon headwaters, and elaborately carved swords from China.

Oregon, the entire Umpqua River, from its headwaters to its mouth at the Pacific Ocean.

Such impounding has successful inauguration in five small reservoirs now in operation on the headwaters of the Mississippi out of forty-two planned.

Apparently afraid that Metellus Pius was going to invade northern Spain from the headwaters of the Tagus, Sertorius had positioned his own army on the upper reaches of the Salo at Segontia, where he would be able to intercept the Piglet as he emerged from the narrow bridge of mountains which separated the Tagus from the Iberus.

But the future battle-fields are perceived to lie toward the sources, at the eaves, as it were, of the watersheds, the headwaters of its tributaries as well as its own.

Western at the town of Chama, New Mexico Territory, just south of the Colorado line near the headwaters of the Rio Chama.

The Argonne Forest, however, nurses the headwaters, not only of the Marne, but also of the Meuse, which indeed passes to within a few miles of Nijmegen.

The village stands near the headwaters of the Colne and Stour, in a rich and beautiful country.

To the headwaters of the Tuliptree River, to check out a story the Dynast’s ambassadrix told me, and another one told me by a tomttu she had with her.

To the headwaters of the Tuliptree River, to check out a story the Dynast's ambassadrix told me, and another one told me by a tomttu she had with her.