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The Amazon Basin, the largest drainage basin in the world, covers about 40 percent of South America, an area of approximately 7,050,000 square kilometres (2,720,000 sq mi)
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What is the name of the area between the highlands in the amazon river?
Amazon basin
What is the major drainage basin of South america?
The major drainage basin of South America is the Amazon River. The river has a total basin area of 5,883,400 square kilometers.
What is the world's biggest river?
The Nile is the longest. The biggest interms of volume of water and area covered is the Amazon.
What river has more tributaries more water volume and has a larger drainage area then any other in the world?
The River With More Tribuataries , More Water Volume And Larger Drainage Area Than Any Other In The World Has To Be The Amazon River.
How many hectares are there in the Amazon?
The Amazon rain forest covers an area of 550 million hectares. The area drained by the river, the Amazon Basin is 705 million hectares.
What is the name given to the large area of rainforest that covers a lot of Brazil?
The Amazon Rainforest, which relates to the largest river in South america, The Amazon River.
Which is the second largest river in the world?
Answer: This could be answered in more than one way: Discharge: The second largest river, in terms of discharge, would be the Congo-Chambeshi in Zaire which discharges 41,800 m³/second (the Amazon River is largest with 219,000 m³/second) Drainage area: The second largest in terms of drainage area would, again, be the Congo-Chameshi with an area of 3,680,000 km² (the Amazon is by far the largest at 6,915,000 km²) Length: The second longest river is the Amazon at 6,400 km (the Nile River is the longest at 6,650km) See related link
Did the incas live along the Amazon River?
no they lived in the Peru area.
What is a largely undeveloped grassy area of the Amazon river basin?
cerrado
What is River with the highest discharge when recorded at it's mouth?
The Amazon - which has the largest drainage basin in the world accounting for approximately one fifth of the world's total river flow.
Do you call the river Amazon the river Amazon or Amazon River?
The actual name is The Amazon or as some people refer to it as The Amazon River It's preffered as the Amazon River.
How big is the worlds largest river and where is it located?
The longest river is the Nile in Africa at 6650 km. That is 250 kms. longer that the Amazon. However, the largest river system is the Amazon of South America with a total drainage area of 7,050,000 square Kms. That is more than double that of the Nile. The total discharge volume of the Amazon is 219,000 cubic meters per second versus 5100 cubic meters per second for the Nile.
