The waters of Ripliancum were the body of water where Coriantumr’s army and the army of Shiz pitched their tents before the final battles of the Jaredite war. The name is glossed in the text as “large, or to exceed all,” indicating a vast body of water; the two armies camped near it and fought the following morning (Ether 15:8). After the fighting there, Shiz’s forces fled southward to a place called Ogath, and Coriantumr’s army pitched by the hill Ramah, the same hill where Mormon later hid the sacred records (Ether 15:11), which the Nephites called Cumorah. Ramah lay to the south of the waters and was reachable within a day’s journey. The surrounding area held “many waters, rivers, and fountains,” as Mormon noted of the land of Cumorah, likely fed by runoff from higher elevations to the west (Mormon 6:4).