Trimestral Geografia PDF
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This document provides information about the world's most important rivers, focusing on their length, discharge, and watersheds. It includes details about the Nile, Amazon, Yangtze, Mississippi, and Yenisei rivers, comparing their characteristics and sizes.
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1. WHAT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT RIVERS IN THE WORLD? According to the length of their course... The longest rivers in the world are the Nile and the Amazon, but there is some debate about their length. The length of a river is the distance between the source and the mouth of the river. Sometimes, it...
1. WHAT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT RIVERS IN THE WORLD? According to the length of their course... The longest rivers in the world are the Nile and the Amazon, but there is some debate about their length. The length of a river is the distance between the source and the mouth of the river. Sometimes, it is difficult to determine exactly where the source is. The world's longest rivers also include the Yangtze, the Mississippi and the Yenisei....according to their discharge... The Amazon is the biggest river in the world. At its mouth, it discharges more than 200000 m3 of water per second into the Atlantic Ocean, much more than the following four rivers combined by volume of discharge: the Congo, the Orinoco, the Ganges and the Yangtze. …or their watershed The Amazon also has the biggest watershed in the world. Its surface area is over 7.000.000 km2 (fourteen times the surface area of Spain). It is followed by the Congo, Nile, Obi and Mississippi rivers, which exceed 3.000.000 km2.
