Bolsón de Mapimí
The Bolsón de Mapimí is an endorheic, or internal drainage, basin in which no rivers or streams drain to the sea, but rather toward the center of the basin, often terminating in swamps and ephemeral lakes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Desert
- Description: endorheic river basin located in the center-north of the Mexican Plateau
- Also known as: “Bolson de Mapimi”
Bolsón de Mapimí
- Category: landform
- Location: Mexico, North America
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Vietnamese—“Bolsón de Mapimí” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Bolsón de Mapimí”
- Cebuano: “Bolsón de Mapimí”
- Chinese: “馬皮米盆地”
- Chinese: “马皮米洼地”
- Chinese: “马皮米盆地”
- Dutch: “Bolsón de Mapimí”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بولسون دى مابيمى”
- French: “Bolsón de Mapimi”
- French: “Bolsón de Mapimí”
- German: “Bolsón de Mapimí”
- German: “Mapimi (Wüste)”
- Hebrew: “בולסון דה מפימי”
- Japanese: “マピミ盆地”
- Lithuanian: “Mapimi lovys”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bolsón de Mapimí”
- Polish: “Bolsón de Mapimí”
- Portuguese: “Bolsão de Mapimí”
- Portuguese: “Comarca Lagunera”
- Spanish: “Bolson de Mapimi”
- Spanish: “Bolson de Mapimí”
- Spanish: “Bolsón de Mapimi”
- Spanish: “Bolsón de Mapimí”
- Spanish: “Comarca Lagunera”
- Swedish: “Bolsón de Mapimí”
- Vietnamese: “Bolsón de Mapimí”
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