The drainage basin of the Amazon River, the largest river drainage system on Earth by discharge and by area, covering most of the northern two-thirds of South America across Brazil, Peru, Colombia and smaller portions of four other countries. It holds the largest single expanse of tropical rainforest in the world, and its river system discharges roughly a fifth of all the fresh water that reaches the world's oceans.
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The Amazon Rainforest occupies most of the Amazon Basin, the atlas own river-basin landform entity.
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Demonstrates
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The Amazon's river system and rainforest, the largest drainage system on Earth, is a defining working example of continental-scale evaporation, transpiration and runoff.
Source New Study Shows How Amazon Trees Use Recent Rainfall (The Conversation)
Shaped By
The basin's floodplain geography has been built by the deposition of river-borne sediment over geologic time.
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1. National Geographic Atlas of the World
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2. Amazon Basin (Wikipedia)
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3°S 60°W / 3°S 60°W / -3; -60
Associated With: Colombia, Lead
The Amazon drainage basin covers a large area spreading across the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela
Demonstrates: The Carbon Cycle, Climate change section
In a typical year, the Amazon absorbs 1.5 gigatons of carbon dioxide; during 2005 instead 5 gigatons were released.
Associated With: Bolivia, Lead, drainage basin countries sentence
The Amazon drainage basin covers a large area spreading across the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, as well as the territory of French Guiana.
Associated With: Ecuador, Lead, drainage basin countries sentence
The Amazon drainage basin covers a large area spreading across the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, as well as the territory of French Guiana.
Associated With: Guyana, Lead, drainage basin countries sentence
The Amazon drainage basin covers a large area spreading across the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, as well as the territory of French Guiana.
Associated With: Suriname, Lead, drainage basin countries sentence
The Amazon drainage basin covers a large area spreading across the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, as well as the territory of French Guiana.
Associated With: Venezuela, Lead, drainage basin countries sentence
The Amazon drainage basin covers a large area spreading across the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, as well as the territory of French Guiana.
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Wikidata: The Amazon Basin
Wikidata Q10788671, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source United States Geological Survey
United States Geological SurveyShaped By: Deposition and SedimentationView the Source Brazil (Wikipedia)
Peru (Wikipedia)
New Study Shows How Amazon Trees Use Recent Rainfall (The Conversation)
The ConversationDemonstrates: Water Cycle, Article bodyQuote, Demonstrates: Water Cycle, Article body
the forest rapidly recycles the rain: it falls, infiltrates shallow soil, is absorbed by roots and is released back into the atmosphere, fuelling new rainfall.
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