SSC
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
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The Amazon basin is almost 2.7 million square miles which are just under the size of the entire contiguous 48 states in the United States. It includes all the rivers, streams, and creeks that eventually flow into the Amazon River. The amount of biodiversity this basin accounts for is almost unimaginable. How does this physical feature impact settlement?
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the settlement was reserved for small populated communities who lived off the forest and rivers
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range isolates the west coast of South America from the rest of the continent
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the abundance of freshwater flowing through that makes abundant life possible
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has numerous glaciers and is a reliable source of water in the region
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -At 6.9 million square kilometers (2.72 million square miles), the Amazon Basin is roughly the size of the forty-eight contiguous United States and covers some 40 percent of the South American continent.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
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