> tossing a rock across the river
Rivers can be miles wide. That's actually the norm in a lot of people's experiences.
Where I am from, "tossing a rock across the river" would be taken to mean something that's impossible.
Rivers can be miles wide. That's actually the norm in a lot of people's experiences.
Where I am from, "tossing a rock across the river" would be taken to mean something that's impossible.
https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/34400/how-... -- Potentially 60 miles, if you consider The Florida Everglades to be a slow moving river.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-water-depth-m-an... This site lists 30m as "average" for river width. No clue what rivers they were measuring.
https://opb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/buac35-sci-riverwi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River
It seems there is no readily available canned answer for average river width and I've already grown bored with this rabbit hole. Note to self: Vernacular measures unwelcome on HN.
I just tuckered out before getting to the part of trying to look up average river width for my home state of Georgia. I'm just tired today, as is often the case, or I would be all over that.
[1] Citation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782650
Average river width is not representative because there are often big population centers near wider parts of rivers. For example, when the east cost of the US was settled, people built cities on the wide, navigable (for big ships) parts of rivers that were close to the ocean.
Still not sure if a Hop, Skip, and a Jump is closer or father away than something you wouldn’t touch with a 10 foot pole.
> Depending on the geographer, the Río de la Plata may be considered a river, an estuary, a gulf, or a marginal sea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata
Fine to assume the river isn't miles wide.