Explain the drainage of india and brazil?Brief( 8 points plz)
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Drainage system: The natural or artificial manner of removal of surface or subsurface water from a particular area is known as the drainage system.
Indian drainage system: The drainage system of India can be classified into three categories. Namely Major river basin, Minor river basin, and Medium river basin. These are categorized according to the catchment capacity and the total runoff percentage.
Brazilian drainage system: Brazil contains one of the world's most extensive river system consisting of eight major drainage systems. The Amazon and the Tocantins-Araguaia basins occupy half of the total drainage area in this territory and in Northeast, it is Sao Francisco basin that forms the drainage system of Brazil.
Explanation:
INDIA
In India, water mainly drains in two directions of the main water divide line. ... On the basis of physiographic origin the Indian drainage may be distinguished as the Himalayan drainage and the peninsular drainage. Himalayan drainage system mainly comprises the basin areas of the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra
BRAZIL
Brazil has one of the world's most extensive river systems, with eight major drainage basins, all of which drain into the Atlantic Ocean. Two of these basins--the Amazon and Tocantins-Araguaia--account for more than half the total drainage area. The largest river system in Brazil is the Amazon, which originates in the Andes and receives tributaries from a basin that covers 45.7 percent of the country, principally the north and west. The main Amazon river system is the Amazonas-Solim�es-Ucayali axis (the 6,762 kilometer-long Ucayali is a Peruvian tributary), flowing from west to east. Through the Amazon Basin flows one-fifth of the world's fresh water. A total of 3,615 kilometers of the Amazon are in Brazilian territory.