Friday 15 August 2014
The Everglades
are a natural region of tropical wetlands in the southern portion of the U.S.
state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large watershed. The system
begins near Orlando with the Kissimmee River, which discharges into the vast
but shallow Lake Okeechobee. Water leaving the lake in the wet season forms a
slow-moving river 60 miles wide and over
100 miles long, flowing southward across
a limestone shelf to Florida Bay at the southern end of the state. Source
