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The Amazon River basin has a low-water season (known popularly as summer), and a wet season (known popularly as winter) during which, the rivers flood the adjacent, low-lying forests. The climate of the basin is generally hot and humid .
11 Οκτ 2024 · The Amazon basin is the largest drainage basin in the world, more than twice as large as that of the Congo River in Africa. Approximately one-fifth of all freshwater runoff on Earth passes through this watershed.
15 Φεβ 2024 · Wetter wet seasons and drier dry seasons may be in store for the Amazon Basin in the final 30 years of this century. Computer modeling suggests annual maximum flows will increase up to 50% in the Amazon River’s headwaters in the Andes to the west; meanwhile, annual minimum flows will decline by 20% to 50% throughout most of the region.
5 ημέρες πριν · Amazonia is the largest river basin in the world, and its forest stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the tree line of the Andes in the west. The forest widens from a 200-mile (320-km) front along the Atlantic to a belt 1,200 miles (1,900 km) wide where the lowlands meet the Andean foothills.
1 Σεπ 2020 · The Amazon river basin receives ~2000 mm of precipitation annually and contributes ~17% of global river freshwater input to the oceans; its hydroclimatic variations can exert profound...
10 Οκτ 2024 · The vast Amazon basin (Amazonia), the largest lowland in Latin America, has an area of about 2.7 million square miles (7 million square km) and is nearly twice as large as that of the Congo River, the Earth’s other great equatorial drainage system.
20 Φεβ 2023 · Climate Change. Viewed from high above, the Amazon in South America is a lush emerald quilt, home to millions of animals and the planet’s largest river by volume. It is also key to protecting our...
