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River deltas of the United States. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. S. Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta (4 C, 48 P)
The list of drainage basins by area identifies basins ... Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta: Primary river: North America: San Francisco Bay: 153,000 59,000: Ruo ...
The Mississippi River Delta is the 7th largest river delta on Earth and is an important coastal region for the United States, containing more than 2.7 million acres (4,200 sq mi; 11,000 km 2) of coastal wetlands and 37% of the estuarine marsh in the conterminous U.S. [1] The coastal area is the nation's largest drainage basin and drains about ...
The shared flood plain of the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers. Despite the name, this region is not the delta of the Mississippi River.The shifting river delta at the mouth of the Mississippi on the Gulf Coast lies some 300 miles south of this area in Louisiana, and is referred to as the Mississippi River Delta.
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The Peace–Athabasca Delta, located in northeast Alberta, is the largest freshwater inland river delta in North America. [2] It is located partially within the southeast corner of Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada's largest national park, and also spreads into the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, west and south of the historical community of Fort Chipewyan.
The global annual runoff into the oceans (38,500–44,200 km 3 /year) is dominated by runoff into the South Atlantic from eastern South America, into the western Pacific from east Asia, and into the Indian Ocean from India, and southeast Asia.
This is a list of rivers in the continental United States by average discharge (streamflow) in cubic feet per second. All rivers with average discharge more than 15,000 cubic feet per second are listed.