What does it mean to go down the river?

[abo.omar]

Enjoy the breathtaking scenery as you go down the rivers of Colorado.
Does it mean to go to the center of it?

 

[Yankee]

It means to travel in a north-south direction for Colorado.

 

[abo.omar]

You mean from the north to the south,right?

 

[emsr2d2]

I take it to mean that you are travelling downstream, as most people do. Travelling upstream is much more difficult.

 

[Yankee]

You mean from the north to the south,right?

For Colorado.

 

[Rover_KE]

I'll repeat what I wrote in your last two threads:

If you are learning English without a teacher, I suggest you put that in your Signature Line, as a permanent reminder for us that you are not simply asking for free answers to homework questions.

Please do that before you post again.

When are you going to do that?

 

[jutfrank]

Please tell us where you saw this sentence and give us some context.

You should know to do this by know.

 

[GoesStation]

It means to travel in a north-south direction for Colorado.

This is incorrect. Going down a river, also known as going downriver, means you're going in the direction the water flows. This can be towards any compass point.

 

[abo.omar]

Please tell us where you saw this sentence and give us some context.

You should know to do this by know.

It is an advertisement to attract people.This is the whole context .

 

[jutfrank]

In that case, see post #4.

 

[GoesStation]

It means to travel in a north-south direction for Colorado.

I've just returned from a couple of weeks in Colorado and the American West. We made a brief stop at the Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center, a parking area with a walkway overlooking the prairie. Interpretive plaques on the stonework explain the geology, fauna and flora, and history of the area. One of them said that the stream winding through the prairie below us drained into the North Platte River, one of the few rivers in North America that runs from south to north. Looking at the images in the Wikipedia article, I see that on the first half or so of the Colorado portion of the South Platte, "downriver" is also north. Colorado rivers mostly flow south-north, west-east, or east-west.

We followed the South Platte for many miles across Nebraska. It's aptly named; "Platte" is French for flat, and that's one flat river. It winds all over the place, with no perceptible river valley. I'm afraid that building Interstate Highway 80 right on its northern "bank" has badly inhibited its natural progress, but it's still magnificent.

You can find other, shorter south-to-north rivers in the northern part of my state of Ohio. Most of the state drains south and east into the Mississippi River basin, but the northern fifteen percent or so drains north into Lake Erie and the St. Lawrence River basin. Thus the rivers in the far north of the state generally run from south to north.

 

[Tarheel]

The Colorado River does primarily flow from north to south. However, there is a reason the two main features of the Grand Canyon are called the North Rim and the South Rim. That is because through the Grand Canyon the river flows from east to west.

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