Several of the Fraser's lower tributaries have floodplains of their own, shared in common with the Fraser freshet.

Additionally, the flow regime in the lower tributaries is far more variable and unpredictable.

The force of the current in the river's Grand Canyon limits the salmon runs to the lower one-third of the river, and to its lower tributaries.

The latter often produces heavy, highly localized floods on lower tributaries of the river, but does not contribute significant volumes of runoff.

As the lower tributaries of the Mackenzie became settled with roads and railways (the Peace, Athabaska, and Nehanni), the boats moved farther north, to work the trackless Arctic.

Elevation ranges from below 800 meters along the Bheri and its lowest tributaries to about 6,000 meters in the Dhaulagiris with a range of climates from subtropical to perpetual snow and ice.

Indeed the lake at Serre-Ponçon only controls the upper reaches of the Durance, and does not control the lower tributaries, whose role is important in the creation of the major floods.

Brea Creek is one of four principal tributaries of Coyote Creek, which is a lower tributary of the San Gabriel River.

Beit Saber is located on the banks of one of the lower tributaries of the Awaj River which originates from Mount Hermon.

Pseudacanthicus is distributed in the Orinoco, the Guyanas, the Rio Negro, and the lower Amazonian tributaries.