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{{short description|Water runoff from a smaller place to a larger one}}
[[File:Iss016e019375.jpg|The port and city are the southern terminus of the [[Suez Canal]] which flows through Egypt and debouches into the Gulf of Suez near Port Tawfiq (ميناء بورتوفيق).|thumb]]
In the geography of rivers, streams, and glaciers, a '''debouch''', or '''debouche''', is a place where runoff from a small, confined space emerges into a larger, broader space. The term is of French origin and means to cause to emerge. The term also has a military usage.<ref>{{cite book | date = 2009 |title = Continental Shelf Sediment Transport and Depositional Processes on an Energetic, Active Margin: the Waiapu River Shelf, New Zealand |first = Yanxia | last = Ma |pages = 2,19}}</ref>
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