Map of South America Comprising 12 Countries, South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, the 4th largest continent in the world by area and the fifth-most populous. South America is bordered to the
The Yangtze River is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world behind the Nile and the Amazon river. It is estimated to be about 6300 km or 3915 miles long. It originates from a glacier located on the eastern side of the Plateau of Tibet. The Yangtze is heavily po...
If you visit Brazil you can see Iguazu Falls, which if you combine the width of the 275 distinct falls, has the greatest width of any waterfall in the world at 8858 feet (2700 meters). The Amazon basin contains the world's largest rainforest and the world's largest and longest river....
The Amazon Basin makes up much of Brazil; this drainage system goes all the way up to the eastern foothills of the Andes. Explore South America Using Google Earth: Google Earth is a free program from Google that allows you to explore satellite images showing the cities and landscapes of ...
director of the Amazon Borderlands Research Center at the National University of Ucayali. Bertha Balb�n Ordaya is professor emeritus of geography at the National University of San Marcos in Peru and a member of the Peruvian National Section of the Pan-American Institute of Geography and History...
Amazon River, the greatest river of South America and the largest drainage system in the world in terms of the volume of its flow and the area of its basin. The total length of the river is at least 4,000 miles (6,400 km), which makes it slightly shorter
Peru, country in western South America. Except for the Lake Titicaca basin in the southeast, its borders lie in sparsely populated zones. Peru has a great diversity of climates, ways of life, and economic activities. The capital is Lima. Learn more about
'river' Everything from the Amazon down to small creeks a couple meters wide 'canal' Medium to large artificial waterway 'stream' Small waterway, usually no wider than a meter or two 'stream_intermittent' Class only. A stream that does not always have water flowing through it. 'drain' Med...
7. Amazon Rainforest If you lived long enough to count that high, you could count 390 billion trees in the Amazon rainforest. This statistic is mind-boggling, to be sure, but then the Amazon rainforest is one awesome piece of real estate, covering about ¾ of the Amazon River basin....
Brazil is located in the eastern coast of South America, sharing land borders with Uruguay in south; Argentina and Paraguay to the southwest; Bolivia and Peru to the west; Colombia to the northwest; and Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and the French overseas department of French Guiana to the ...