Explain ''Amazon basin''
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the Amazon basin is the part of the South America drained by the Amazon River and it's tributaries.
Explanation:
the Amazon drainage basin covers 6,300,000km^2,or about 35.5percent of South American Continent
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Amazon collects its headwaters
from the eastern slopes of Andes Mountains in
Peru.. Amazon River receives huge discharge.
This is about 2 lakh m3/s . As a result, Amazon
washes off the load supplied to it from the
catchment. Consequently, sediments are not
deposited even at the mouth. A dense network of
distributaries, which is a characteristic feature
of river mouth areas, is by and large absent in
the mouth region of Amazon. Instead we find a
series of islands developed along the mouth of
Amazon beyond the coast line in to the Atlantic
Ocean. It will be interesting to note that at the
mouth the width of Amazon channel is 150
km. (Take into consideration a place which is
150kms away from your home. You will get an
idea of the width). Most of the course of the
Amazon river is suitable for navigation.
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