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The Danube Delta (Romanian: Delta Dunării, pronounced [ˈdelta ˈdunərij] ⓘ; Ukrainian: Дельта Дунаю, romanized: Del'ta Dunaju, pronounced [delʲˈtɑ dʊnɐˈju]) is the second largest river delta in Europe, after the Volga Delta, and is the best preserved on the continent. [2]
Chilia branch is 104 kilometres (65 mi) long. The flow at the entrance into the delta is of 6,350 m 3 /s; the Chilia branch carries between 58 and 60 percent of this flow. Along the Chilia branch is located the former Ottoman fortress in today's Ukrainian city of Izmail.
2]: Length: 290 km (180 mi) [3] 4,876 km (3,030 mi) including the Paraná: Basin size: 3,170,000 km 2 (1,220,000 sq mi) [4] 3,182,064 km 2 (1,228,602 sq mi) [5]: Discharge: : • location: Río de la Plata, Atlantic Ocean: • average: (Period 1971-2010) . 27,225 m 3 /s (961,400 cu ft/s) [5] 22,000 m 3 /s (780,000 cu ft/s) [3]. 884 km 3 /a (28,000 m 3 /s) [6]: • minimum: 12,000 m 3 /s ...
The La Plata basin is bounded by the Brazilian Highlands to the north, the Andes Mountains to the west, and Patagonia to the south. The watershed extends mostly northward from the source of the Río de la Plata for roughly 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi), as far as Brasília and Cuiabá in Brazil and Sucre in Bolivia, spanning latitudes between 14 and 37 degrees south and longitudes between 43 and ...
No Continent River Average discharge (m 3 /s) Length Drainage area (km 2) Outflow Type (km) (miles) 1 South America: Amazon: 224,000 6,992 4,345 6,915,000 Atlantic Ocean
Tributaries and sub-tributaries are hierarchically listed in order from the mouth of the Río de la Plata upriver. The terms "right" and "left" indicate on which side of the main stem river a tributary is located, from the perspective of looking downriver, following standard river bank terminology usage .
The United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (Spanish: Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata), earlier known as the United Provinces of South America (Spanish: Provincias Unidas de Sudamérica), was a name adopted in 1816 by the Congress of Tucumán for the region of South America that declared independence in 1816, with the Sovereign Congress taking place in 1813, during the Argentine War of ...
The Rio de la Plata marine ecoregion covers the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, between the shores of Argentina an Uruguay and inshore of the continental shelf of the Uruguay - Buenos Aires Shelf marine ecoregion. The ecoregion is an important reproductive and nursery ground for marine life, as the river runoff provides nutrients for larval and ...