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The natural vegetation can be broadly divided into five different types. They are:

When the retreating monsoon blows from the northeast across the Bay of Bengal, it picks up a significant amount of moisture, which is subsequently released after moving back onto the peninsula. Thus, from October to December the coast of Tamil Nadu state receives at least half of its roughly 40 inches (1,000 mm) of annual precipitation. That rainy extension of the generally dry retreating monsoon is called the northeast, or winter monsoon.

As the southwest monsoon starts its downpour of rain in the Western Ghats, the western parts of Tamil Nadu receive about 150 cm of rainfall on an average. Most of the eastern and central parts of Tamil Nadu become rainshadow region for this season. This occurs due to the southwesterly direction of monsoonal winds in this season. In general, the amount of rainfall of south west monsoon decreases from west to east.

Amazon is the largest river in the world,situated in south America. It covers an area of 7,500,000 square km and 40% of the south America continent. The most important tributary is the Maraming river, which is the second largest river in the world.  Major part of the basin is covered with amazon rain forest.

River Mississippi is the largest river of North American continent. It is fourth largest river of the world. This river originates from Itasca lake located in Minnesota city of USA. River Mississippi flows through 25 states of USA. It is longest river flowing in one country. It forms longest river system of the world. 

The Amazon River basin stretches from the Brazilian Highlands in the south to the Guiana Highlands in the north. Its area is around 2.7 million square miles, and it covers almost half of South America, including a total of eight countries: Colombia, Bolivia, Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Venezuela, and Suriname.

The Amazon Rainforest is an Equatorial rainforest and is located very close to the Equator. As a result of being an Equatorial rainforest, the Amazon basin's weather and climate are very hot, humid and damp.  There are no seasons like Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring, it is just one humid season with lots of rain.

The Amazon Basin stretches directly on the equator and is characterized by hot and wet climate throughout the year. Both day and nights are almost equally hot and humid. The skin feels sticky. It rains almost every day, that too without much warning. The day temperatures are high with very high humidity. At night the temperature goes down but the humidity remains high.