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The Great Plain is basically one of the largest plains on Calémere as well as one of its most densely populated areas; most of it is part of the drainage basins of a few large rivers: two of them, the Lāmiejāya - Calémere's longest river - and the Lirān, have a common shared delta in the northeastern part of the plain; the other major ones all have a common estuary in the southeast, formed by the outlet of the tidal Lūlunīkam Lake. All of these basins are only divided by a few minor hills, so that the impression is of being in a single, continuous plain which spans, at its largest extents, twenty degrees of latitude and almost forty-five degrees of longitude. The highest relief inside the plain itself is Kahandrāta hill, on the border between the dioceses of Mūrajātana and Pūracikāna, about 940 meters high. However, near the foothills of the Camipāṇḍa mountains, thousands of kilometers away from the sea, the plain terrain reaches similar (and higher) elevations; these are somewhat noticeable in some areas, such as Cambhaugrāya in the northeastern part, where rivers sometimes form gorges and run tens of metres lower than the surrounding terrain. | The Great Plain is basically one of the largest plains on Calémere as well as one of its most densely populated areas; most of it is part of the drainage basins of a few large rivers: two of them, the Lāmiejāya - Calémere's longest river - and the Lirān, have a common shared delta in the northeastern part of the plain; the other major ones all have a common estuary in the southeast, formed by the outlet of the tidal Lūlunīkam Lake. All of these basins are only divided by a few minor hills, so that the impression is of being in a single, continuous plain which spans, at its largest extents, twenty degrees of latitude and almost forty-five degrees of longitude. The highest relief inside the plain itself is Kahandrāta hill, on the border between the dioceses of Mūrajātana and Pūracikāna, about 940 meters high. However, near the foothills of the Camipāṇḍa mountains, thousands of kilometers away from the sea, the plain terrain reaches similar (and higher) elevations; these are somewhat noticeable in some areas, such as Cambhaugrāya in the northeastern part, where rivers sometimes form gorges and run tens of metres lower than the surrounding terrain. | ||
The northern border of the plain is made up by the Camipāṇḍa ("great white") mountains, one of the longest mountain chains of Calémere and also the highest. It contains Calémere's highest mountain, mount Laikadhāṣṭra, which is 5.Ɛ77 pā (10,315<sub> | The northern border of the plain is made up by the Camipāṇḍa ("great white") mountains, one of the longest mountain chains of Calémere and also the highest. It contains Calémere's highest mountain, mount Laikadhāṣṭra, which is 5.Ɛ77 pā (10,315<sub>10</sub> — about 10,717 m = 35,160 ft) high and lies on the border between the dioceses of Ñarigeiras and Maichlahåryan (the actual peak is in Ñarigeiras; the border passes through a slightly shorter peak to the northwest). | ||
The southern border between the Great Plain and the equatorial rainforest (which is, topographically, also mostly plain) is marked by a distinct biome that makes this area so special: the huge wetlands created by the many rivers that flow northward from the various hills in the northern part of the rainforest. This area is basically a huge network of swampy forests, and is known in Chlouvānem sources as the ''halumi paɂītumi no ṣveya'' - literally "wall of [[w:igapó|igapós]] and [[w:várzea forest|várzeas]]", and extends through the dioceses of Dhārvālla, Tamīyahāna, the southern third of Ārvaghoṣa, Talæñoya, and the southern part of Nanašīrama. The dioceses of Vælvmaichlam and Yalyakātāma, and to a lesser extent also Ñariākātāma all have similar habitats and northward-flowing rivers (Vælvmaichlam's ones are outside the basins of the Great Plain), but are included in the major area of the southern rainforest instead. | The southern border between the Great Plain and the equatorial rainforest (which is, topographically, also mostly plain) is marked by a distinct biome that makes this area so special: the huge wetlands created by the many rivers that flow northward from the various hills in the northern part of the rainforest. This area is basically a huge network of swampy forests, and is known in Chlouvānem sources as the ''halumi paɂītumi no ṣveya'' - literally "wall of [[w:igapó|igapós]] and [[w:várzea forest|várzeas]]", and extends through the dioceses of Dhārvālla, Tamīyahāna, the southern third of Ārvaghoṣa, Talæñoya, and the southern part of Nanašīrama. The dioceses of Vælvmaichlam and Yalyakātāma, and to a lesser extent also Ñariākātāma all have similar habitats and northward-flowing rivers (Vælvmaichlam's ones are outside the basins of the Great Plain), but are included in the major area of the southern rainforest instead. | ||