Western Australia is the largest state in Australia. It contains no fewer than 1224 separate Protected Areas with a total area of 17,061,020 hectares (land area: 15,915,080 hectares – 6.30% of the state’s area). 63 of these are National parks, totalling 4,874,282 hectares (1.93% of the state’s area).
... at 3,014 m. Major rivers include the Amazon, the largest river in the world by volume, the Parana[?] with its impressive Iguaçu[?] falls, the Rio Negro, São Francisco[?], ...