What is the estuary on the southeast coast of South America?

Río de la Plata | estuary, South America | Britannica.

What is a coastal estuary?

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal water area where fresh water from rivers and streams mixes with salt water from the sea. Estuaries and their surrounding land areas are places of transition from land to sea.

What is the difference between a gully and an estuary?

A slough is typically used to describe wetlands. Along the West Coast, sloughs are often named for the quiet, backwater parts of bays, and thus are part of the estuary, where fresh water flows from creeks and runoff from land mixes with salty seawater carried by the tide.

What is the southernmost part of South America?

The southernmost point can either be: Águila Islet, Diego Ramírez Islands, Chile (56°32′16″S 68°43′10″W), or, if the South Sandwich Islands are included as part of South America: Cook Iceland, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (59°29′20″S 27°8′40″W)

Where are the estuaries of the United States?

Estuaries formed when sea levels rose after the last ice age, drowned river valleys, and stabilized at roughly present levels about 6,000 years ago. South of the mouth of the Coquille River at Bandon are six small estuaries—the Sixes, Elk, Rogue, Pistol, Chetco, and Winchuck.

Is the Columbia River a saltwater estuary?

Draining one of the largest river basins in North America (259,000 square miles), the Columbia Estuary is dominated by the river's freshwater inflow. Although the tidal range extends 146 miles upstream to Bonneville Dam, traces of salt water are rarely found above River Mile 30, even at low flow.

Where are the estuaries of South Africa located?

The list is in order from east (border with Mozambique) to west (border with Namibia). The South African coastline stretches about 3000 km from Kosi Bay near the Mozambique border in the east to the Gariep (Orange) River at the Namibian border in the west.

How big is the Cape Estuary?

The estuary and floodplain cover a large area stretching 40 km inland along one of the Cape's largest rivers. This area includes a wide variety of habitats, including sandy beaches, mudflats, roof pipes, river channels, beach veld and flood plains, and is famously rich in bird life.