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The 5 largest rivers basins (discuss.tchncs.de)
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[-] bort@feddit.de 24 points 8 months ago

eurasia, are you even trying?

[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 17 points 8 months ago

Mountains not conveniently arranged along the edges of the continent 😤. Who designed this shit?

[-] geogle@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Plate tectonics. Blame PT.

[-] infeeeee@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

It depends on how you define a river. This map displays Rio de la Plata as a river, but that's debateable, officially it's an estuary. If you separate Parana and Uruguay rivers, than the Ob river basin in Asia is bigger than any of those.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drainage_basins_by_area

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 11 points 8 months ago

This is fascinating to see pictured!

I'd love to see a version expanded to the top 10.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah I'd love to see more. The major rivers of China as well as the Niger and St. Lawrence would be awesome.

[-] Gray@lemmy.ca 10 points 8 months ago

It's wild how close the Amazon river basin comes to the west coast of the continent without draining into the ocean on that side.

[-] Pantrygheist@programming.dev 11 points 8 months ago

The Andes blocking all the good stuff from going into Peru, Bolivia and Chile

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

I read somewhere that the Amazon River used to run from east to west until about 6 million years ago when the Andes Mountains developed, reversing the course

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

Well, there's a little bunch of hills over there blocking it.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

The Nile basin extends much further south of Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika than I would have imagined.

[-] Jerb322@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Sorry, I'm not familiar, what is the measurement M km2?

[-] nezbyte@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Million kilometers squared

[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 7 points 8 months ago

1Mkm² ≈ 33 Belgiums ≈ 247M football pitches ≈ 1549806949806949 sq. in

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago
[-] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

At least seven.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Does Antarctica have any 'rivers'? Or does all the snow just stay there

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Username checks out

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

The glaciers and ice flow down to the ocean, here you can see the velocity of the ice there are a couple red streaks that could be called streams but they aren't the long narrow fast moving streams we'd call a river.

[-] ichmagrum@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

Rhine river basin looks a lot bigger than I remember.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

If you tilt your head to the right the Amazon one looks like a lightning strike with various branches. Probably could be said of all of them but I think that one is the best example.

[-] anarchist@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Why use Mercator?

this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2024
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