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Does anyone know of a decently detailed map or atlas of south america?

As I'm doing research for the Cat-eLog, I'm constantly finding the on-line map resources (maps.google.com and http://www.encarta.com for example).

So, I'm looking to find a paper map that I can use to find locations for the fish I'm looking at.

Any ideas?

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Mats

How about adding names of the larger rivers to the map and maybe having it as a download/feature on the site.

Like this perhaps.....




I hope it was OK for me to doctor the image Silurus.

Hi Mats,

If you are after a book for your own reference, I ordered the following 1 from Amazon.com (wasn't on the amazon.co.uk lists), not much mentioned about fish, but maps do get broken down with place names (not perfect, but best I found at the time):

The Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon

Andrew

I have that book too and I thoroughly recommend it.

Not just maps, but loads of text and photos of the people and ways of life in the Amazon.

Bit depressing really, as it illustrates how logging and mining have ruined so much of it.

Unfortunately it doesn't cover the other South American rivers such as the Orinoco drainage.

Silurus: Thanks, but I was actually after something with grid lines, place-names and other such identifying pieces so that (for example) I can find out if two fish from Rio Xingu come from places near each other, or are 500 miles apart. If they are from places close together, one can infer that they require similar conditions (water temp, pH/kH etc), whilst when they are from opposite ends of the river, that's not at all certain (almost certainly not, in fact).

The Smithsonian Atlas seems great, but as racoll explains, doesn't cover all of South America (or at least all of the popular fish regions for tropical fish-keeping).

I'm probably more after a road-atlas - The "north american" version of This is what I'd ideally would like to have.

Although I prefer one that is "one step" less precise, as I expect that there's something that covers all of the northern half of South America (or a quarter at a time or such)?

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Mats

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Mats

Mats,
You are looking for this
http://www.randmcnally.com/rmc/store/st ... f.0&cmty=0

It is my standby and sits on my computer desk 24/7.

For more detailed maps look here,

http://www.randmcnally.com/rmc/store/st ... f.0&cmty=0

Breaks it out country by country.

-Shane

Thanks Shane.

The second link didn't work, but I think I managed to work out which ones you mean - same series, with individual countries...

I'll have to see what Amazon will do on it...

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Mats

I have both the Smithsonian Atlas and the Amazon Basin map and together cover most of S.A.

I totally recommend both of them!

HI!!


Someone linked me to this website I found rather good!!!

http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/ad770b/AD770B00.htm#TOCSouth American Rivers

Cheers
Yann

On this note, I seem to remember there is a "standard" fishbase list of all river basins. I could adopt that and add a map for each one or link to Google earth. Much easier than zillions of KMZ files (unless you are dynamically creating KMZ files) - this would also allow a "show me other fish in the same basin" type search but as we all know, you can have hill streams, Piedmont, rapids and slow river mouths all in one basin...

Jools

Was that the one from the Cichlid site? I can't find it.
Amanda

I dug out my National Geographic maps I kept when I had a subscription years ago. There was a map entitled, "Amazonia:A World Resource At Risk" from August 1992. One side shows all of South America. The other side shows all of the national parks, deforestation, dams, etc. This was from 1992. I need a magnifying glass, but the river names are all there.
Amanda