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Physical Geography of the Basin

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The Middle Paraná River

Abstract

The Paraná River drains a continental-sized basin formed by several different, even contrasting, regions. Such regions cover areas with hundreds of thousands of square kilometers in extension. The Middle Paraná is a type of fluvial synthesis of a huge territory covering an area of 2,600,000 to 2,800,000 km2 (according to different criteria of definition), which includes a large diversity of rainforests, mountain deserts, and savannas. Basically, however, the fluvial net of the Paraná basin can be considered as a great machine of continental size that collects, modifies, and transports water, nutrients and other inorganic and organic products from tropical environments to the middle latitudes of the South Atlantic Ocean.

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Iriondo, M.H., Paira, A.R. (2007). Physical Geography of the Basin. In: Iriondo, M.H., Paggi, J.C., Parma, M.J. (eds) The Middle Paraná River. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70624-3_1

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