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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.
Paraguay, or the Province of the Rio de la Plata, with the Adjacent Regions Tucamen and Santa Cruz de la Sierra is a map from 1616 depicting the area "An Account of a Voyage up the River de la Plata, and Thence over Land to Peru: With Observations on the Inhabitants, as Well as Indians and Spaniards, the Cities, Commerce, Fertility, and Riches ...
These areas can still be included in topographically defined basins if the hypothetical flow of water (or ice) over the surface of the ground (or ice sheet) is considered. For example, the Antarctic ice sheet can be divided into basins, [ 1 ] and most of Libya is included in the Mediterranean Sea basin even though almost no water from the ...
Deep water port on the River Paraguay in Asunción, Paraguay 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 ...
Français : Carte du Río de la Plata, entre l'Argentine et l'Uruguay en Amérique du Sud - en français English: Map of the Río de la Plata, River Plate or [La] Plata River, between Argentina and Uruguay in South America.
The volume of water flowing into the Atlantic Ocean through the Río de la Plata roughly equals the volume at the Mississippi River delta. This watershed contains a number of large cities, including São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rosario, Asunción, Brasília, and La Plata.
Map of the Rio de la Plata Basin, showing the Bermejo River joining the Paraguay River north of Resistencia. The Bermejo River at Presidencia Roca in the Argentine Gran Chaco The Bermejo seen from Puente Lavalle upstream. The Bermejo River (Spanish, Río Bermejo [1]) is a river in South America that flows from Bolivia to the Paraguay River in ...
Map showing the Río de la Plata drainage basin and major tributaries. This is a list of tributaries of the Río de la Plata, or rivers of the La Plata Basin.Tributaries and sub-tributaries are hierarchically listed in order from the mouth of the Río de la Plata upriver.