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Topography of South America. Relief map from 1922 that has been recreated using 3D rendering techniques. (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Amazon's discharge is not big because of the mountains, but it flows around the equator, where the rain never stops.

The upper section in the Andes it's called Apurímac. Just see the images on wiki, it's not very wide while leaving the mountains, it gets most of its water downstream

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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