Physiographic regions of the world Essays

part of the Central Lowlands. • It covers a major portion of the Venezuela and Colombia. • It forms a giant arc of 2,736 km in length in the northern and southern part. • It maintains a vast, savannah or grassland region, called the Llanos. • The highest waterfalls in the world, the Angel Falls, is located here. Paraguay/Paraná River Basin • It is spread across 2.8 million

seasonal snow cover. The IHR serves as water reservoirs for the country by feeding the rivers, originating from the Himalaya. Himachal Pradesh with highly variable topography having elevation range of 350 to 7000 m is divided into five distinct physiographic units from south to north: (1) Alluvial Plains (the southernmost zone developed at the foothills of Siwalik Range), (2) Sub-Himalayan zone, (3) Lesser Himalayan zone, (4) Central/Great Himalayan zone, and (5) Trans-Himalayan zone. The significant

Introduction Raptors are birds of prey which hunt or feed on other animals and are on the top of the food chain. India holds a excellent diversity of raptors including 69 species of diurnal and 34 species of nocturnal raptors. In a total of these 103 species some are migratory and come through western Asian flyway, Central Asian flyway and East Asian flyway such as Eurasian griffon, Cinereous vultures, Steppe eagle and Amur falcon etc. Resident raptors are stays here throughout the year and breed