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Major Drainage Basins

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The world's drainage basins: land areas where surface water converges to a single point

USGS

A map shows major drainage basins depicted as blue dashed lines. Some of the notable basins include Columbia, Colorado in North America; Amazon, Orinoco in South America; Niger in Africa; Danube in Europe; Indus in Asia; and Murray-Darling in Australia.

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Major Drainage Basins

Aluminum Production by Country

Major Drainage Basins

Class

Rank

Thousand metric tons

51.2%
93.2%
13.8%
11.4%
12.7%
42.3%
20.9%
96.7%
5.64%
9.36%
22.1%
19.1%
42.9%
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