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Bodies of Water in your Community

Water bodies are described in a plethora of different names in English - rivers,


streams, ponds, bays, gulfs, and seas to name a few.
There are different forms of flowing water. The smallest water channels are often called
brooks but creeks are often larger than brooks but may either be permanent or
intermittent. Creeks are sometimes known as streams but the word stream is quite a
generic term for any body of flowing water.
A stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. It
moves to a lower level in a channel on land. Example of this is Tandawan stream in
Davao.
A river is a natural watercourse usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake,
or sea, or another river. In few cases, a river simply flows into the ground or dries up
completely before reaching another body of water. The rivers in the Philippines are the
Pasig River ,called Ilog Pasig in Filipino that connects Laguna De bay to Manila Bay.
Another example is the Pampanga River formerly known as Rio Grande De Pampanga,
the second largest river in the island of Luzon. Another is Cagayan River, the third

largest located in Central Luzon Region and traverses the provinces of Pampanga,
Nueva Ecija, Bulacan, Tarlac and Quezon. DRAFT April 10, 2014

Another river is Agusan River located in the eastern part of Mindanao draining
majority at Caraga Region and some parts of Compostela Valley province whose length
is 350 km and its basin area is 10,921 km.
A hot spring is produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater from
the Earths crust, Example is the Tangub Hot Spring in Camiguin. It is in the sea at
normal water level. At low tide the warm water comes out between the rocks.
A body of relatively still water of considerable size, localized in a basin, that is
surrounded by land apart from a river, stream, or other form of moving water that
serves to feed or drain the lake. Example is Laguna de Bay, the largest lake in the
Philippines located east of Metro Manila between the provinces of Laguna to the south
and Rizal to the north.
A pond is a small lake, most often in a natural depression. Like a stream, the word
lake is quite a generic term - it refers to any accumulation of water surrounded by
land - although it is often of a considerable size.
A sea is a large body of saline water that may be connected with an ocean or may be a
large saline lake that lacks a natural outlet. An example is the Camotes Sea, a small
sea between the Eastern Visayas and the Central Visayas. It is bordered by the islands
of Leyte to the north and east, Bohol to the South and Cebu to the West.

Oceans are the ultimate bodies of water and refers to the five oceans - Atlantic, Pacific,
Arctic, Indian, and Southern. The equator divides the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific
Oceans into the North and South Atlantic Ocean and the North and South Pacific
Ocean.
Coves are the smallest indentations of land by a lake, sea, or ocean. A bay is larger
than a cove and can refer to any wide indentation of the land. Example is the
Anawangin Cove in Zambales, a province of the Philippines located in the Central
Luzon region.
Larger than a bay is a gulf which is usually a deep cut of the land, such as Ragay Gulf
IN Camarines Sur . Bays and gulfs can also be known as inlets.
Any lake or pond directly connected to a larger body of water can be called a lagoon
and a channel explains a narrow sea between two land masses.

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