The refuge consists of blufflands, marshes, bottomland forest, islands, channels, backwater lakes and sloughs. Valiyaparamba is a scenic backwater stretch near Kasargod. The Yokums live in the backwater hamlet of Dogpatch, Kentucky. It is also the starting point of the backwater waterways. Throughout the imperial Roman period, Sicily was a quiet, prosperous backwater. The Vellar-Coleroon estuarine complex forms the Killai backwater and Pichavaram mangroves. These were sites of farmland, transportation routes by river, and backwater plants and animals. Because of this low elevation drop, the river has a long backwater. It fell on hard times in the colonial period as an economic backwater. Cruise options are Chandragiri and Valiyaparamba near Kavvayi Backwater. Throughout the 20th century Taitung remained an economic backwater. Bosnia was a political backwater of the Republic of Yugoslavia. Florida was never more than a backwater region for Spain. As such, the west was viewed as a backwater that presented negligible threat. Equipment was scarce in the Mediterranean and in the backwater of Crete.