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This satellite image of the Mississippi River Delta shows how a river’s delta is made up of a large number of channels fanning out to meet the sea.

es, streams, and rivers. Floods cover much of the Pantanal in the rainy season, which lasts from December to March, but the floods sometimes continue until mid-June. The Amazon Basin is a separate wetlands system that was created over millions of years by the Amazon River. It covers an

What Are Wetlands?

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