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The rivers They are fresh water currents that flow on the continents, from the higher altitudes to the lower parts. In this way, the relief is the factor that most determines the characteristics of the river, an element that is present both in the smallest streams to the rivers with the highest flow in the world.
The river flow is not usually constant, and all of them they usually flow into seas, lakes and sometimes into the ocean itself, through estuaries or other hydrographic formations that make it possible to greatly widen the space through which the water passes: through these semi-closed bodies of water a very particular aquatic environment is created, due to the complex physical and biological processes that are triggered there .
There are occasions, on the other hand, that the river only flows into another river, which is the case of the so-called tributary rivers. The point at which hydrographic formations divide (or merge) is called the confluence, and the flow of the river that receives tributaries is always less than that of its predecessor.
It can serve you:
- Rivers of North America
- Rivers of Central America
The largest river in the world, the Amazon which is located in South America, has 6,800 kilometers and its route is crossed by more than 1,000 tributaries, some 25 rivers with more than 1,000 kilometers in length. The magnitude of the Amazon River is remarkable, covering by itself 40% of South America.
As in North America, in South America There is a mountain chain that runs through the West of the continent from North to South, the Andean chain. In South America, this chain is called the Cordillera de los Andes, and it is fundamental for the purposes of hydrographic formations that are formed on that continent.
The southern subcontinent biome is mostly tropical, in particular a jungle biome humid: the aforementioned basin of the Amazon River runs most of its journey along that region. The other biomes that are formed around the South American rivers include tropical evergreen forests, tropical forests with seasons, tropical savannas formed with natural grasslands, or woods mountain on the slopes of the Andes.
The following list includes some names of rivers in South America, with a brief description of some of them.
- Amazon River: Its source occurs in Peru, at the confluence of the Marañón and Ucayali rivers. Its immensity is revealed by seeing that it is the longest, most powerful, widest, deepest river with the largest basin on earth.
- Orinoco river: It is the third largest river in the world. It occurs at large floods, due to the torrential tropical rains that generate significant floods. It receives practically 200 rivers with more than 500 tributaries.
- Parana River: River that is part of the extensive La Plata basin. It is classified as an alluvial river, because it carries and drags sediments in its flow.
- Paraguay River: Born in the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso, and serves as a limit in three cases of countries; between Brazil and Bolivia, between Brazil and Paraguay, and between Paraguay and Argentina. It is the main fluvial artery of Paraguay.
- Silver river: River with an estuary, formed in Argentina and Uruguay by the formation of the Paraná and Uruguay rivers. It has the peculiarity of being the widest river in the world.
- Uruguay River
- San Francisco River
- Tocantins River
- Essequibo River
- Xingu River
- Purús River
- Mamoré River
- Madeira River
- Ucayali River
- Caquetá River
- Black river
- Magdalena river
- Marañón River
- Pilcomayo River
- Apurímac River
Can serve you
- Rivers of North America
- Rivers of Central America
- Examples of Open and Closed Seas
- Examples of Lagoons
