25954433Xingu RiverSouth section of the Xingu River's Great Loop ("Volta Grande"), between the Belo Monte dam (under construction) and the first rapids.
This section of the river is rather calm, divided into dozens of channels that separate many large alluvial-like islands.
The riverbed is being entered as a polygon with 'river' category, rather than a linear river with riversides, because its margins are too complex for the latter. Moreover, the riversisdes editing tool is very buggy.
Also, as discussed in the forum, is its better to enter a single broad river and then draw islands on top of it, instead of modeling each channel as a linear river. However, someone already entered the channels that way, and it would be a pity to throw that work away. However the channel network prevents the use of a single river with riversides for the whole river. This is another reason to model the river as a polygon, which does not conflict with the channel network.-51.8914573-3.5247954BrazilAmapaOiapoque23424-3.4289259-3.6206648-51.8038497-51.9790649
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