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Silver estuary

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We often forget that the Rio de la Plata is a  estuary and as such has special characteristics, we must also consider its magnificence . It is the second world watershed drains an average flow 23,000 m3)  It is a huge body of fresh water that  mixes with the sea. Since December 2015 El Niño increased rains, and a large region of southern Brazil and northern Argentina and eastern plains flooded kilometers, displacing wetlands to camalotes. The water hyacinth (Echhornia crassipes) as floating islands charged different animals, who landed on shores of the estuary. Various reptiles including reptiles: poisonous snakes, lizards, arachnids (spiders and scorpions) and coypu (Myocastor coypus) ,. But the estuary shows another face. A few days ago it appeared in the San Isidro Nautical : a sea lion from Patagonia, which was helped to reach open water in the estuary bound to the sea ... the estuary joins the estuary on the coast of Buenos Aires and Montevideo to the tropics an...