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It drains nearly 40% of South America.
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Most of the rainforest in south America is in which country?
Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, and Suriname, as well as French Guiana, a department of France.
What is the mileage between Indiana and Kentucky?
Indiana and Kentucky share a border, the Ohio River. The Ohio River is about a half-wile wide.
Where does the Amazon River end in?
No. While there are a few half-submerged islands and shallow sandbanks, the Amazon does not have a delta. The inflowing tidal bore combines with strong currents offshore to carry the silt away into the deep Atlantic Ocean. There are many channels besides the main river channel, forming a large estuary at the mouth of the river.
Why was the Mississippi river system was an important economic resource during the first half of the 1800s?
transport farm goods to market
A french river that flows into the bay of biscay?
The josue River. This river is one of the largest! ITS GRAND I TELL YOU- GRAND! :) --------------------- The Loire River, the Gironde (the confluence of the Garonne River, the Dordogne, and several smaller rivers) and the Adour River all empty into the Bay of Biscay, as do several smaller rivers. The Loire, however, is in the northern half of the country; the other two are in southern France.
What river system drains half of the Canadian provinces?
The Prairie provinces are located in Canada, and comprise the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, as they are covered partially by grassland. The Mackenzie River drains much of this region of Canada.
What river drains almost half of the US and serves as a transportation route between the upper and Midwest and the gulf coast?
The Mississippi.
What river drains almost half of the US and serves as a transportation route between the upper Midwest and the gulf coast?
The Mississippi.
What river delivers half the fresh water to the Chesapeake Bay?
The Susquehanna river does because it's tributaries run all the way up to New York . The rain up in New York runs in to storm drains up there and the water travel through the system of drains down to the Susquehanna river in to the Chesapeake bay.
How often does flood the amazon river?
It usually starts flooding in November and may continue rising in June (it does this every year). It swells from about 4-5 miles at its widest to nearly 25 miles, tripling the land area it covers. The estuary where it meets the ocean is over 200 miles across and deep enough for sea-going vessels to travel nearly 2/3 of the way up the river. Approximately 20% of all of the freshwater in the world that enters the ocean is by way of the Amazon river. The reason is that almost all of the rainwater that falls on the northern half of South America eventually drains into the Amazon river. Deforestation is not the cause for the Amazon river flooding annually, but it is changing the way it floods due to things like erosion.
How does the Amazon River flood?
It usually starts flooding in November and may continue rising in June (it does this every year). It swells from about 4-5 miles at its widest to nearly 25 miles, tripling the land area it covers. The estuary where it meets the ocean is over 200 miles across and deep enough for sea-going vessels to travel nearly 2/3 of the way up the river. Approximately 20% of all of the freshwater in the world that enters the ocean is by way of the Amazon river. The reason is that almost all of the rainwater that falls on the northern half of South America eventually drains into the Amazon river. Deforestation is not the cause for the Amazon river flooding annually, but it is changing the way it floods due to things like erosion.
What river that flows from north to south dividing the nation in half?
The Mississippi River flows north to south and divides the United States in half. The Arch built in St. Louis is known as the gateway to the West, referring to the Mississippi River as the division between the Eastern and Western half of the United States.
Is it true that an Amazon river dolphin becomes a handsome young man who seduces girls impregnates them and then returns to the river in the morning to become an Amazon river dolphin again?
No. Just like a mermaid a river dolphin can not turn into a human. Humans can not turn into animals. Both would die because nature would not allow a half human/half animal to live. The DNA is not the same and it can not live.
Where does the word 'Amazon' come from?
The Amazon is one of the world's great rainforests. The Amazon river runs 3,000 miles from the Andes to the sea, and is longer than any river but the Nile. The vast Amazon basin covers more than two and a half million square miles, more than any other rainforest. by osmanyare..
What is the name of the watershed that drains about half of the Midwest and Eastern US?
Shale Watershed
What is an amazing fact about the Amazon?
Source: Calillona, Peru.The Mouth(Delta) is located in North Eastern Brazil. The Amazon River is the world's second longest river. Only the Nile, in Africa, is longer. The Amazon however, at any one point in time has the highest amount of water flowing down it. No other river even comes close. It may not be the longest, but it is the widest. The Amazon produces approximately 20 percent of all the water that the world's rivers pour into the oceans on its own. The Amazon collects water from just over 40 percent of South America's Landmass, through the thousands of tributaries that join the main branch of the Amazon river. Of these tributaries, 17 are over 1600(1000 miles) kilometres long. From Iquitos in Peru all the way across Brazil to the Atlantic, the Amazon is between six and ten kilometres wide. The maps page has a picture that shows this effect quite well. The Amazon is even wider when it is flooded in the wet season. The first European found the amazon because he was 200 miles out to sea and noticed that he was sailing in fresh water. He turned toward shore and found the amazon river. Ships still today anchor in the outflow of the Amazon, to remove the marine life(barnacles) attached to their hulls (salt water organisms can't live in fresh water). The Amazon is the greatest river in the world by so many measures; the volume of water it carries to the sea (approximately 20% of all the freshwater discharge into the oceans), the area of land that drains into it, and its length and width. It is one of the longest rivers in the world and, depending upon who you talk to, is anywhere between 6,259km/3,903mi and 6,712km/4,195mi long. For the last century the length of the Amazon and the Nile Rivers have been in a tight battle for title of world's longest river. The exact length of the two rivers varies over time and reputable sources disagree as to their actual length. The Nile River in Africa is reported to be anywhere from at 5,499km/3,437mi to 6,690km/4,180mi long. But there is no question as to which of the two great rivers carries the greater volume of water - the Amazon. At its widest point the Amazon can be 11km/6.8 mi wide during the dry season. The area covered by the Amazon River and its tributaries more than triples over the course of a year. In an average dry season 110,000 square km of land are water-covered, while in the wet season the flooded area of the Amazon Basin rises to 350,000 square km. When the flood plains and the Amazon River Basin flood during the rainy season the Amazon River can be up to 40km/24.8 mi wide. Where the Amazon opens at its estuary the river is over 325km/202 mi wide! Because the Amazon drains the entire Northern half of the South American continent (approx. 40% landmass), including all the torrential tropical rains that deluge the rainforests, it carries an enormous amount of water. The mouth of the Amazon River, where it meets the sea, is so wide and deep that ocean-going ships have navigated its waters and traveled as far inland as two-thirds the way up the entire length of the river.
Which river divides Venezuela in half?
It is Orinoco River
