GEOGRAPHY THROUGH MAPS
Amazon Basin
The Amazon basin is the land area whose surface water drains through the Amazon system. It links the Andes, equatorial lowlands and tributaries from adjacent uplands.
Fast Facts
- It is the world’s largest river drainage basin by area.
- Its catchment crosses national boundaries and contains Andean as well as lowland environments.
- The river system supplies roughly one-fifth of global river freshwater discharge to the oceans; this is a flow estimate, not a share of all freshwater stored on Earth.
Connected lessons
- Amazon BasinMap, explanation and practice
Geographical connections
- AmazonRelated places
- Machu PicchuRelated places
- Guiana HighlandsRelated places
- Mantaro RiverRelated places
- Apurímac RiverRelated places
- Madeira RiverRelated places
- Macapá · Amazon mouth regionRelated places
- Amazon rainforest · SelvasRelated places
- Rio NegroRelated places
- Tocantins RiverRelated places
- La Plata BasinRelated places
- AmazonIncludes
- River basinRelated concept