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SOUTH AMERICA - Coggle Diagram

- - - - South America has three main river basins:
        
        The Amazon River Basin: It has a surface area of almost 7 million km2, making it the largest river basin in the world the largest river basin in the world. The Amazon is the life life force of the impressive Amazon rainforest biome
        
        This tropical biome has
        more than 100 species of trees.
        
        It has incredible animal life such as: insects, primates, frogs primates, frogs, thousands of species of birds and fish.
        
        Orinoco River Basin: It is about 948,000 sq. km and flows north of the Amazon km2, and flows north of the Amazon from the northern
        from the Guayana plateau of northern Brazil to the Brazil to flow into the Atlantic Ocean in Venezuela. The main biome of this basin is a vast savanna known as the Llanos known as the Llanos and is also the habitat of many species of birds and fish.
        
        Paraguay river basin: It covers almost 2.8 million km2, representing most of southeastern Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and northern Argentina. The Paraná River is home to a series of immense Iguazú Falls. Together with the Uruguay River, the Paraná flows into the estuary of the Rio de la Plata between Argentina and Uruguay. The Rio de la Plata is the most populated city between the two countries and provides water to the biome of the plains.
    - - It is an area of low, flat land near the coast. In South America, coastal plains are found on the northeast coast of Brazil, on the Atlantic Ocean, on the Ecuadorian coast and on the western Pacific coast of Peru and Chile. In the western coastal plains there are wet plains like those of Ecuador and dry plains like those of Peru and Chile, so there is very little vegetation. These are trapped between the cold Humboldt Current to the west and the Andes Mountains to the east.
        
        The Atacama Desert, in Chile, is considered the driest region in the world. The average rainfall is about one millimeter per year and parts of it have never received a drop of water in have never received a drop of water in history. Although the Atacama Desert, despite the fact that the Atacama Desert lacks flora and fauna.
    - - The Andes is the most important mountain range in South America and the longest in the world, 8,850 km long is the longest in the world, it is 8,850 km long. Its highest peak, and the highest outside Asia, is the Aconcagua (6,962 meters). The most prominent plateaus are the Altiplano of Peru and Bolivia with an altitude of about 3,700 meters and the inter-Andean valleys of Ecuador are between 2,500 and 3,500 meters.
        
        The Patagonian region of Argentina and Chile is made up of steep slopes and glaciers. Outside the Andes, the two main high altitude areas are in Brazil and Guyana.
        Located south of the Amazon River, the Brazilian Planalto is made up of mountains and low plateaus that rise in sea level.
        
        The Guiana massif stretches between the Amazon and Orinoco rivers. With its dense arboreal vegetation, this plateau occupies southern Venezuela, French Guiana, Guiana, Northern Brazil and part of southern Brazil. northern Brazil and part of southeastern Colombia.