(ËdÉl tÉÉªd) n. 1. a large, triangular muscle covering the joint of the shoulder, the action of which raises the arm away from the side of the body. adj. 2. pertaining to or involving the deltoid. 3. in the shape of a Greek capital delta (Î´); triangular.
The Morongo Basin is located centrally in the southern portion of the state of California in the United States. The Morongo basin is part of the Inland Empire area, and is considered to be the easternmost portion of the Greater Los Angeles region, the 2nd largest metropolitan region in the United States. Joshua Tree National Park lies within the basin.
The Amazon basin (the watershed of the Amazon River) is 7,050,000 km2 in area (or about 2,500,000 miles2), and covers about 40% of South America. Of this area, approximately 5,000,000 km2 is (or was) covered by high tropical rainforest, with the remainder covered by savannah (campo) or scrubby woodland (cerrado).he Amazon basin covers significant portions of the countries of Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia, though the major part of the watershed lies within Brazil. The next largest tropical watershed, that of the Congo River, at 3,690,000 km2, is only half the size of the Amazon basin.