Advanced Geography . ; n At Buenos Ayres, the wide mouth of thell Plata river was so shallow that vessels not anchor within six or eight miles of the|7 shore, until an artificial port was made by* dredging out the bottom. The coast is lowand flat, and the houses are seen from offshorebefore the land itself appears. The city of Montevideo, on the northern shore of the Platamouth east of Buenos Ayres, has a good natural harbor and hastherefore grown to be the chief port of the country of Uruguay. 52. The Llanos. The third large river basin in South America is thatl^fa V:V of the Orinoco

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Advanced Geography . ; n At Buenos Ayres, the wide mouth of thell Plata river was so shallow that vessels not anchor within six or eight miles of the|7 shore, until an artificial port was made by* dredging out the bottom. The coast is lowand flat, and the houses are seen from offshorebefore the land itself appears. The city of Montevideo, on the northern shore of the Platamouth east of Buenos Ayres, has a good natural harbor and hastherefore grown to be the chief port of the country of Uruguay. 52. The Llanos. The third large river basin in South America is thatl^fa V:V of the Orinoco. On the south it adjoins*& the basin of the Ama-zon. On the west and.|^f-^ north the Ancles form thei|y boundary. The lowland of this basin isa very young coastal plain. Itsrivers flow in narrow valleysworn only a little below thelevel of the plain. The mainriver has made a larsre delta. _ that is low and The plains of the He^* Orinoco are called thellanos. When the sunis north of the equa-tor, they are

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