Río de la Plata (IMAGE)

University of Washington

Río de la Plata

Caption

A 2002 satellite view of the Río de la Plata, which forms at the confluence of the the Paraná River and the Paraguay River. The Río de la Plata drains a basin of more than 1.2 million square miles, the second-largest in South America after the Amazon basin.

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Jacques Descloitres/MODISRapid Response Team/NASA/GSFC

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