These ponds are considered sacred.

It is named for three lakes in the region.

There are no ponds, streams, rivers, lakes, nothing like that.

Several lagoons are found along the Atlantic coast.

Vernal ponds are ponds which dry up for part of the year.

A wide variety of man made bodies of water are classified as ponds, including water gardens designed for aesthetic ornamentation, fish ponds designed for commercial fish breeding, and solar ponds designed to store thermal energy.

Sete Lagoas (meaning 'Seven Lagoons' in Portuguese) is a city in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.

Ponds and lakes are distinguished from streams via current speed.

The regions include the interior, the littoral, Greater Montevideo, and the coast.

In addition to the harbor, there are several small brooks and ponds within the city limits.

Hilly terrain, lakes, high cliffs, dense forests, flower filled meadows and three UNESCO listed sites this is the Vysočina Region, a rugged land, about which people have said that here ends bread and begins stone since time immemorial.

Main lagoons Lagoa de São Raimundo, Lagoa de Iputi, Lagoa dos Nunes, Lagoa de Dentro.

The adults usually inhabit shallow lagoons, feeding mostly on various species of seagrasses.

Três Lagoas ( Three Ponds ) is a municipality in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

The region was formerly crossed by different creeks and lagoons, some of which were refilled and others tubed.

So I would go into the ponds and crawl around and pick them up with my toes.

A square which looks like it has come straight from the stories of Hans Christian Andersen, a romantic chateau and crystal clear fishponds surrounding the city.

There were many lagoons around Lake Biwa, but most of them were reclaimed in 1940s.

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Here you will find hundreds of ponds, rivers and canals, gradually built up from the 15th century.

In medieval times in Europe, it was typical for many monastery and castles (small, partly self sufficient communities) to have fish ponds.

Geographically, the areas west of Ring Road West, extending as far west as the saltponds and south of Graphic Road, are considered Accra West.

Its name comes from the enormous deposits of salt that, in the form of lagoons or eyes , appear in its glaciers.

While currents in streams are easily observed, ponds and lakes possess thermally driven micro currents and moderate wind driven currents.

So, the ponds, the open bodies, are everywhere, right from Sri Lanka to Kashmir, and in other parts also.

Few people know that the king of Czech ponds used to be twice as big as today, when the total area was 490 ha.

Siamese crocodiles occur in a wide range of freshwater habitats, including slow moving rivers and streams, lakes, seasonal oxbow lakes, marshes and swamplands.

Despite the aridity, the presence of many lagoons makes this region very marshy and a suitable breeding ground for malaria mosquitoes.

Nowadays the club awaits the construction of a football stadium in Betim, and will probably play in other cities, such as Sete Lagoas, in the first semester of 2013.

A huge water park with the largest amount of indoor attractions in the Czech Republic was built on the site of the ancient Roman baths at Novomlýnské nádrží.

Such conditions necessarily require the widespread presence of crater lakes across a large proportion of the surface, for which there is also independent mineralogical, sedimentological and geomorphological evidence.

Many use ponds, or puddles that collect in the holes of their trees, while others use bromeliads or other water holding plants.

A site is a generic term that refers to places where ecologists sample populations, such as ponds or defined sampling areas in a forest.

Macaé UFRJ has acted in the city of Macaé since the 1980s, when researchers from its Institute of Biology performed studies in the lakes of Região dos Lagos (literally, Lake Regions).

Jacarepaguá is located in the West Zone of Rio in the Baixada de Jacarepaguá, between Maciço da Tijuca and the Serra da Pedra Branca.

Even among organizations and researchers who distinguish lakes from ponds by size alone, there is no universally recognised standard for the maximum size of a pond.

Distribution and habitat Its natural habitats are temperate forests, Mediterranean type shrubby vegetation, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, sandy shores, arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, water storage areas, ponds, and introduced vegetation.

In total, there are 448 bodies of open water within the boundaries of Kiev, which include Dnieper itself, its reservoirs, and several small rivers, dozens of lakes and artificially created ponds.

Unlike many felids, tigers are strong swimmers and often deliberately bathe in ponds, lakes and rivers as a means of keeping cool in the heat of the day.

In North America, even larger bodies of water have been called ponds for example, Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts measures , nearby Spot Pond is , while in between is Crystal Lake at .

Very small fish are likely to be eaten only in case of sudden encounter, mostly in shallow dry season ponds where not much effort is needed to catch the small prey.

The first day of 'rongali bihu' is called 'Goru bihu' (the bihu of the cows), when the cows are taken to the nearby rivers or ponds to be bathed with special care.

They are often abundant in quiet, inland waters, where they may bloom in numbers sufficient to color the surface of ponds and ditches green ( E. viridis ) or red ( E. sanguinea ).

The phylactolaemates live in all types of freshwater environment lakes and ponds, rivers and streams, and estuaries and are among the most abundant sessile freshwater animals.

Using aerial photography, archaeologists were able to identify archaeological features, including 112 water features (reservoirs, artificially constructed pools and natural ponds)within the walled site of Angkor Borei.