The savanna through which the river has flowed gives way to a wide floodplain, studded with Borassus fan palms.

The river's wide floodplain is characterized by alluvial soils.

Major river systems with wide floodplains cut through the plains and discharge into the bay.

Even after this, the river is isolated from Reading's suburbs by a wide floodplain surrounding the river.

And so I went straight, leaving the narrow canyon behind, and entered the riverbed instead, the wide floodplain of vanished water.

A wide and swampy floodplain surrounds the river in this area.

After flowing past the town of Kabompo, it develops a swampy floodplain up to 5 km wide.

In larger rivers there is also a wider floodplain shaped by waters over-topping the channel.

Here, the river is already wide and powerful, winding across a braided channel through a wide floodplain.

In the southern-most parts of the region, where the hills are lower, the rivers tend to be mature and are characterized by wide floodplains.