Differentiate between Distributaries and Tributaries
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Eg. Yamuna river meets Ganges at allahabad and the river after the confluence is Ganges, not Yamuna. So, Yamuna is tributary of Ganges.
And , the distributary is the stream of river, which splits from main river and takes another path and identified by different name than that of original river.
Eg. The river Hooghly separates from Ganges and meets the sea by different path. So, it is distributary of Ganges.
The river Ganges and Brahmaputra meet each other, but no one is tributary of other one bacause
There is no any small and big river. Both rivers are long and wide.
The name of river after confluence is not same as any one of them ( It is Meghana).
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A tributary and a distributary are both bodies of freshwater that eventually meet with or diverge from rivers, but they differ in the direction that they flow. A tributary is a stream that flows into a larger river. A distributary is a stream or small river that splits off from a larger river and flows in a different direction.
The process in which a distributary branches off from a river is called bifurcation.
Tributaries also have a variety of special terms attached to them. The river that tributaries flow into is called a mainstream. A tributary is also known as an affluent, and the point where the tributary meets with the mainstream is called the confluence. In addition, tributaries can be called "left-bank tributaries" or "right bank-tributaries" based on the side of the river on which they're located.
The Balikh is one example of a stream that originates in the mountains and eventually combines with the Euphrates River and becomes a left-bank tributary. In Wyoming, there's a small creek called the North Two Ocean Creek. This creek has a distributary that splits into two streams: one that flows to the Atlantic Ocean and one that flows to the Pacific Ocean.