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The Río de la Plata basin (Spanish: Cuenca del Plata, Portuguese: Bacia do Prata), more often called the River Plate basin in scholarly writings, [1] sometimes called the Platine basin [2] or Platine region, [3] is the 3,170,000-square-kilometre (1,220,000 sq mi) [4] hydrographical area in South America that drains to the Río de la Plata.
2]: Length: 290 km (180 mi) [3] 4,876 km (3,030 mi) including the Paraná: Basin size: 3,170,000 km 2 (1,220,000 sq mi) [4] 3,182,064 km 2 (1,228,602 sq mi) [5]: Discharge: : • location: Río de la Plata, Atlantic Ocean: • average: (Period 1971-2010) . 27,225 m 3 /s (961,400 cu ft/s) [5] 22,000 m 3 /s (780,000 cu ft/s) [3]. 884 km 3 /a (28,000 m 3 /s) [6]: • minimum: 12,000 m 3 /s ...
Tributaries and sub-tributaries are hierarchically listed in order from the mouth of the Río de la Plata upriver. The terms "right" and "left" indicate on which side of the main stem river a tributary is located, from the perspective of looking downriver, following standard river bank terminology usage.
The Paraguay River is the second major river of the Rio de la Plata Basin, after the Paraná River. The Paraguay's drainage basin , about 1,095,000 square kilometres (423,000 sq mi), [ 4 ] covers a vast area that includes major portions of Argentina, southern Brazil, parts of Bolivia, and most of the country of Paraguay.
The Rio de la Plata marine ecoregion covers the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, between the shores of Argentina an Uruguay and inshore of the continental shelf of the Uruguay - Buenos Aires Shelf marine ecoregion. The ecoregion is an important reproductive and nursery ground for marine life, as the river runoff provides nutrients for larval and ...
Surface Water: The La Plata sub-basin's catchment area is 130,200 km 2 and constitutes (4.2%) of the world's fifth largest river basin – the La Plata, extending over 3.1 million km 2, five countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay), almost 50 major cities, and supporting over 100 million inhabitants.
2.1 La Plata Basin. 2.2 Atlantic Ocean - Patagonia. 2.3 Pacific Ocean (Argentina ... Río de la Plata. Uruguay River. Gualeguaychú River; Mocoretá River; Miriñay ...
La Plata River (Navajo: Tsé Dogoi Ńlíní) is a 70-mile-long (110 km) [2] tributary to the San Juan River in La Plata County, Colorado, and San Juan County, New Mexico, in the United States. This small river heads at the western foot of Snow Storm Peak in the La Plata Mountains of southwestern Colorado , approximately 35 miles (56 km) north ...