<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am Mo., 14. Okt. 2019 um 09:43 Uhr schrieb Joseph Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com">joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> If it is a valley, wouldn’t there be water at some time, even if very rarely?<br>
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Off the top of my head, there are at least 3 types of valleys that<br>
never contain running water:<br>
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1) Valleys in karst formations, where all surface water disappears<br>
into cracks or holes in the limestone and flows underground. There are<br>
several moderately large valleys like this near me, where there is no<br>
visible surface watercourse, even though my area receives over 200cm<br>
of rain a year.<br>
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2) Valleys in cold climates where the temperature never is above 0<br>
degrees. There are a number of dry valleys in Antartica like this, as<br>
well as in some high-elevation Alpine areas.<br>
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3) Valleys in very dry climates, where there is never sufficient rain<br>
for surface flow of water. The deserts in southern Peru and northern<br>
Chile are like this. Many small valleys there are formed by wind or<br>
motion of fault lines or plate tectonics, not by flowing water.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>right, there are some exceptional cases. Maybe the waterway=wadi tag still applies to some of them, for example wikip.en explains that water in wadis may be ephemeral or sub-surface:</div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadi">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadi</a></div><div><br> </div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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(In most dialects of Arabic, the word "wadi" وَادِي means "valley",<br>
not necessarily a dry watercourse as in English.)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>yes, but the tag is waterway=wadi, so there is a reference to watercourse. <br></div><div></div></div><div>It doesn't mean that there must be water at every time of course.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Martin<br></div><br></div>