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Question
Give geographical reasons.
The rivers in Brazil do not flow in the west direction.
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Solution
- Continental Slope: The beautiful Andes Mountains in the west form a continental slope, in which the ground naturally falls downward from west to east.
- Slope of the Brazilian Highlands: The enormous Brazilian Highlands dominate the east and south, gently sloping toward the north and northeast, guiding river systems like the Amazon and São Francisco.
- Atlantic Ocean Drainage: Water naturally goes from high to low elevations, causing all major Brazilian river basins to drain east or north into the Atlantic Ocean.
- Behaviour of Coastal Rivers: The Great Escarpment blocks even rivers that originate near the eastern coast, forcing them to travel westward into the plateau before joining bigger systems that discharge into the Atlantic.
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