{"id":26482,"date":"2024-09-10T06:07:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T00:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26482"},"modified":"2025-04-08T02:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T20:58:07","slug":"paraguay-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/paraguay-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Paraguay River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Paraguay River:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>fifth largest<\/strong> river <strong>in South America<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It runs over a course of approximately 1,584 miles (<strong>2,549 kilometer<\/strong>s) from its <strong>headwaters in the Brazilian<\/strong> state of Mato Grosso (within the <strong>Brazilian Highlands<\/strong>) to its <strong>confluence with the Paran\u00e1 River<\/strong>, of <strong>which it is the main tributary<\/strong>, just north of Corrientes, <strong>Argentina<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It runs through <strong>Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The river serves as a <strong>natural boundary<\/strong>, particularly <strong>between Paraguay and Brazil<\/strong> and <strong>between Paraguay and Argentina.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Pantanal<\/strong>, one of the most pristine and biologically rich environments on the planet, <strong>is contained within<\/strong> the <strong>Upper Paraguay River Basin.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Pantanal is the <strong>world\u2019s largest tropical wetland<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Paraguay<\/strong>, <strong>along with<\/strong> the <strong>Paran\u00e1 and Uruguay Rivers<\/strong>, <strong>form<\/strong> the <strong>second most important drainage system in the world,<\/strong> which covers approximately 1.6 million square miles.<\/li>\n<li>These <strong>empty into the Rio de la Plata estuary<\/strong> at a rate of 2.8 million cubic feet of water per second, an <strong>outflow second only to<\/strong> that of the <strong>Amazon River<\/strong>. Thereafter, the <strong>rivers empty into the Atlantic Ocean.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is an estuary?<\/h3>\n<p>An estuary is an area where a freshwater river or stream meets the ocean. In estuaries, the salty ocean mixes with a freshwater river, resulting in brackish water. Brackish water is somewhat salty, but not as salty as the ocean. An estuary may also be called a bay, lagoon, sound, or slough.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/paraguay-river-registers-lowest-water-214251191.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Paraguay river registers its lowest water level in more than a century at Asunci\u00f3n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paraguay River is the fifth largest river in South America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}