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Show WatorfOifd nf tho Plate. The waterslied drained by the Plate is estimated to represent an area of 1,500,000 .quaro miles, the largest in the world, with the exception of the Amazon, and possibly also of the Congo, the area of which has never been even approximately estimated. The Parana contributes an outflow of 41,000,000 and the Uruguay one of 11,-UO0.O0G 11,-UO0.O0G cubic feet a minute, the Plate huvjng a volume of 32.000,000 cubic feet, i as compared with 62.000,000 for the Ama-j Ama-j zon and 34,000,000 for the Mississippi. La Plata takes its name from Bilver, but j it has a Lawny hue. Exportand Finance. |