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Identifier: nouvellegograp17recl (find matches)
Title: Nouvelle géographie universelle : la terre et les hommes
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: Paris : Hachette et cie.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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FLEUVES DE LISTHME COLOMBIEN. 579 vient du massif de la. Culebra el qui, parla direction de sa vallée, est labranche maîtresse, car en aval du confluent les eaux unies coulent trans-versalement aux chaînes côtières pour aller se déverser dans la mer desAntilles, en franchissant une barre dont la profondeur moyenne est dunpeu plus de 5 mètres. Dans la rivière même, lépaisseur deau varie de 4 à12 mètres en saison des maigres, mais les crues soudaines que produisentles grandes pluies élèvent parfois de 12 mètres le niveau fluvial : lesbrusques montées de 6 mètres ne sont pas rares; les ponts construits poul-ie chemin de fer ont été dépassés de 4 et même de 0 mètres par le niveaudes inondations. Le débit du rio Onagres varie de 10 à 1050 mètres parseconde1; mais lécart ordinaire est seulement de 21 mètres, en eauxbasses, à 75 mètres, en temps de crue : la portée moyenne est très con-sidérable en proportion de celle des rivières européennes. La superficie

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  • bookid:nouvellegograp17recl
  • bookyear:1876
  • bookdecade:1870
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Reclus__Elis__e__1830_1905
  • booksubject:Geography
  • bookpublisher:Paris___Hachette_et_cie_
  • bookcontributor:University_of_Connecticut_Libraries
  • booksponsor:LYRASIS_members_and_Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:588
  • bookcollection:uconn_libraries
  • bookcollection:americana
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