Rice is grown in the swampy plains.
Much of the land in the region is swampy coastal plains with mangroves found in its shallow waters.
To the south of this lies a broad plain, initially swampy but now drained and expanded by reclamation.
Ohio was a low-lying swampy plain near the coast during the Pennsylvanian.
Sea-borne silt clogged up the port and led to the formation of a huge swampy plain, which then separated the village from the sea.
The sea retreated, leaving streams, lakes and swampy plains to become the resting place for sediments.
They inhabit wild, waterless mountains and lonely, swampy plains, without walls, cities, or cultivated land.
The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish.
The north of Belize is mostly flat, swampy coastal plains.
In 1574 the construction of a line of defensive walls was begun, which are still well preserved today, while the surrounding swampy plain was drained.
