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The Amazon.

2006-09-13 19:58:54 · answer #1 · answered by fatboysdaddy 7 · 1 1

The largest river basin in the world is on the Amazon in Brazil. It covers about 7,045,000 sq km (2,720,000 sq miles). There are over 370 species of birds, 220 species of butterflies, and 9 species of monkeys. The largest city at the basin is Macapa where I did intern work for one of my degrees. I spent almost two years there and never even covered half of the basin area.

Of all the countries on the face of the Earth, none is more mysterious, or less explored, than Brazil. To look at it on a map and to actually be there is just no comparison. Miles upon miles upon tens of hundreds of miles of this country have never been set foot upon by the white man.

Local history and major history books are replete with stories and tails (not folklore), of expeditions and those who have dared venturing into these pockets of unexplored jungle and have never come out. Well equipped groups that have never returned and it’s not hard to see why they are true. There are many areas within the interiors of Brazil and the Amazon Basin where it is known that whole tribes of quite savage Indians live whose civilizations are said to be akin to those existing at the time of the Stone Age. There are still many hidden cities of the Inca's and other past civilizations that have as yet to be found in the confines of the dense Amazon jungles.

2006-09-13 20:17:44 · answer #2 · answered by dn_side_umop 3 · 0 0

If you mean the drainage surface area, or all the land the drains into the river and all of its tributaries, I'd say it's probably the Mississippi, that's a huge basin!

2006-09-13 20:06:23 · answer #3 · answered by DustInCarroll 4 · 0 0

The Amazon, I think

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2006-09-17 19:09:01 · answer #4 · answered by WA 3 · 0 0

china

2006-09-13 20:49:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

the nile!

2006-09-13 19:57:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

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