Be prepared to have a newfangled discernment for humble river basin . Geographer and map - maestro Robert Szucs has created coloured high - resolution mathematical function that show the flowing glory of river washbowl in Europe , the US , South America , and Africa .
Like squiggly vein , each stemma shows the path of body of water as it drains through the drainage basin to eventually hit the ocean . The thickness of each line denotes the fiat of the flow under the Strahler Stream Order Classification .
The most noteworthy feature film of the US map is the epic extent of the Mississippi River ’s contributing basins , which debilitate water into the Mississippi River through wetlands and tributary from 31 unlike states and two Canadian provinces , all the way from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico .
The South America map also neatly shows the river basin that drains into the universe ’s big river by discharge , the Amazon , in the light blue realm . Same too goes for the secondly largest river , the Congo River , seen in the Africa map in purpleness .
These mapping were created by Szucs mainly using the open - sourceQGIS computer software , data from the European Environment Agency , the Rivers internet System , and – no doubt – hour of work . In a rather cool move , he in the beginning made just the Europe single-valued function , but then created the others due to pop demand .
Since they are almost as moderately as they are instructive , you’re able to buy print of the mapping from his Etsy storeright here . point over to theImgur Galleryfor a closer look at the maps , along with some more information .
Europe
Robert Szucsvia Fejetlenfej / Imgur
Africa
South America
Robert Szucs via Fejetlenfej / Imgur
[ H / T : Reddit ]
