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Topography of South America. Relief map from 1922 that has been recreated using 3D rendering techniques.

c/map_enthusiasts · u/Blaze@sopuli.xyz · 109 points

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u/infeeeee@lemm.ee · 3 points

Amazon's discharge is not big because of the mountains, but it flows around the equator, where the rain never stops.

The upper section in the Andes it's called Apurímac. Just see the images on wiki, it's not very wide while leaving the mountains, it gets most of its water downstream

u/infeeeee@lemm.ee · 7 points

These kind of relief maps are called "exaggerated", the vertical scale is different from horizontal. If you would zoom in and look from a closer birds eye like view, mountains would look really unrealistic.

Example from r*ddit:

!https://i.redd.it/q94c7pqvmhk91.jpg

u/jet@hackertalks.com · 4 points

I love this so much. I want to own a physical version of this relief map

u/HaleHirsute@infosec.pub · 2 points

Did you make it or just share it? I love these kinds of maps. A guy online made me some custom ones before for free of an island where I have property, was super nice of him. Your style looks different though, I really like it.

u/chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world · 2 points

I read Lost City of Z recently, and this is a wonderful visual aid for that. If you haven't read the book, you definitely should. The movies was *OK*, but the book was amazing.