The Chicontepec Basin ( Chicontepec Formation ) is a petroleum system in Mexico north-east of Mexico City, covering an area of around in the states of Veracruz, Puebla and Hidalgo.

In 2003, PEMEX said it could take total investment of $ 30 billion over 15 years to fully develop Mexico's oil and gas reserves in the Chicontepec Basin.

In February 2009, the certified reserves of Chicontepec Field were comparable with half of those in Saudi Arabia with, which puts Mexico at the fourth place of the countries with most oil reserves after Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Canada, yet, Mexico lacks the technology to exploit those reserves.

In March 2006, Mexican President Vicente Fox announced that Pemex would be investing $ 37. 5 billion US dollars over the next 20 years on the oil fields of Chicontepec.

Intensive drilling has taken place in Chicontepec in recent years, starting with a contract for 500 new wells offered in December 2008.

Despite these difficulties, Pemex urgently needs production from Chicontepec to offset the rapid production decline in its main offshore field, Cantarell.

Tepehua communities include Chicontepec and Huayacocotla.

The San Luis Valley, contains an alluvial basin, the Alamosa Basin, which lies at the north end of the Rio Grande rift.

The Basin and Range also contains the Owens Valley, the deepest valley in North America ( more than 10, 000 feet ( 3 km ) deep, as measured from the top of Mount Whitney ).

The northern part of Aksai Chin is referred to as the Soda Plain and contains Aksai Chin's largest river, the Karakosh, The river, which receives meltwater from a number of glaciers, crosses the Kunlun farther northwest, in Pishan County and enters the Tarim Basin, where it serves as one of the main sources of water for Karakax and Hotan Counties.

The Waddell Ranch contains the single biggest portion of the Permian Basin Royalty Trust, with over 800 producing oil wells as of 2007.

To its southeast is the Alvord Desert, the driest place in Oregon, and to the north lies Harney Basin, which contains Malheur Lake and Harney Lake.

Museum contains miniature, true to scale, vehicles that depict the life style of the early settlers of Uintah Basin.

Odessa is situated above the Permian Basin, a large sedimentary deposit that contains significant reserves of oil and natural gas.

There is a one mile ( 1. 6 km ) branch called the Digbeth Branch Canal which runs from the junction to Typhoo Basin and contains 6 locks.

The Corrib Basin is also quite large, worth anything up to € 87 billion, while the Dunquin gas field contains of natural gas and of petroleum.

The Great Basin almost entirely contains the smaller Great Basin physiographic section, which extends about into the Colorado River watershed ( including the Las Vegas metropolitan area and northwest corner of Arizona ).

Although South Park contains some of the same geologic formations that yield oil and gas in the Denver Basin further east, efforts to find commercial oil and gas in South Park have so far proven unsuccessful.

The Shoshone Geyser Basin, reached by hiking or by boat, contains one of the highest concentrations of geysers in the world-more than 80 in an area 1, 600 by.

The surrounding Maracaibo Basin contains large reserves of crude oil, making the lake a major profit center for Venezuela.

The eastern slopes of the Cottonwoods drop to the Snyderville Basin, which contains Park City and its three neighboring ski resorts.

Mount Washington contains views of the San Gabriel Valley and Los Angeles Basin to the Pacific Ocean on clear days.

The US Geological Survey estimates that the North Cuba Basin contains of undiscovered petroleum liquids and 9. 8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, almost all in the offshore part of the basin.

The Green River Basin contains the world's largest known deposit of trona ore near Green River, Wyoming.

The Salmon River basin contains most ( up to 70 percent ) of the remaining salmon and steelhead habitat in the Columbia River Basin.

Badwater is the lowest elevation settlement in North America, near Badwater Basin, which contains the lowest point in North America.

It contains the headwaters of the Amu Darya ( Oxus ) River, and was an ancient corridor for travellers from the Tarim Basin to Badakshan.

The Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana contains some 800 billion tons of brown coal, and the Lewis and Clark Expedition ( 1804 to 1806 ) reported fires there.

The Neversink River contains a large population of sea mussels and the richest diversity of freshwater mussels in the upper Delaware River Basin.

The Empetrichthyinae are typically found in the southwestern Great Basin of the United States, and contains 4 species in two genera.

Inland stromatolites can also be found in saline waters in Cuatro Ciénegas, a unique ecosystem in the Mexican desert, and in Lake Alchichica, a maar lake in Mexico's Oriental Basin.

Holloman is located in New Mexico's Tularosa Basin between the Sacramento and San Andres mountain ranges.

It was recovered near New Mexico's border with Arizona, in an area known as the Zuni Basin, from rocks assigned to the Moreno Hill Formation, dating to the late Cretaceous period ( mid-Turonian stage ), around 91 million years ago.

The largest part of the country, about 75 percent, consists of the Tonle Sap Basin and the Mekong Lowlands.

Costa Rica's immigration is among the largest in the Caribbean Basin.

Teotihuacan is an enormous archaeological site in the Basin of Mexico, containing some of the largest pyramidal structures built in the pre-Columbian Americas.

The East Shetland Basin is one of Europe's largest oil fields and as a result of the oil revenue and the cultural links with Norway, a small independence movement developed briefly.

The desert is underlain by the Great Artesian Basin, one of the largest inland drainage areas in the world.

* The western rivers combine into the Indus Basin, of which the Indus River is the largest.

The Great Artesian Basin situated in Australia is arguably the largest groundwater aquifer in the world ( over 1. 7 million km² ).

Because China's capital ( and second largest city ), Beijing, and the third largest city, Tianjin, both lie in the Hai He Basin, Hai He floods cause a significant loss.

It is one of only two major urban areas in the Great Basin ( the other being Reno, Nevada ), and the largest in the Intermountain West.

It is the largest lake in the Chad Basin.

Retrieved September 5, 2012, from link .</ ref > – also written Teotihuacán is an enormous archaeological site in the Basin of Mexico, just northeast of Mexico City, containing some of the largest pyramidal structures built in the pre-Columbian Americas.

A complex of six National Wildlife Refuges — Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuges Complex — seasonally draw some of the largest concentrations of waterfowl in North America.

Idaho City was founded in December 1862 as " Bannock " ( sometimes given as " West Bannock "), amidst the Boise Basin gold rush during the Civil War, the largest since the California gold rush a dozen years earlier.

With a rapidly growing campus, Columbia Basin College is the largest public two-year community college in Southeastern Washington with a student body of nearly 7, 000 students.

Settlement began in the area near Wright in the 1970s, with the creation of the Black Thunder Coal Mine, the largest mine in the Powder River Basin and most productive mine in the United States.

The Dubois Museum preserves and interprets the natural and social history of the Upper Wind River Valley as the National Bighorn Sheep Interpretive Center focuses on public education about the biology and habitat of the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep with specific focus on the currently largest herd of Rocky Mountain Bighorn sheep in the coterminous United States that winter in the Whisky Basin of Whisky Mountain adjacent to the Fitzpatrick Wilderness in the Shoshone National Forest.

Large peat bogs also occur in North America, particularly the Hudson Bay Lowland and the Mackenzie River Basin They are less common in the southern hemisphere, with the largest being the Magellanic Moorland, comprising some 44, 000 square kilometers.

In the fall of 1994, Fort Hood units participated in the largest deployment since Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm executed split base operations in the Caribbean Basin, Central America and Southwest Asia, in support of Operations Vigilant Warrior and Sea Signal V, as well as other contingency operations.

The Midland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale ( MOSC ) has performed in the Permian Basin for over 45 years, and is the region's largest orchestral organization, presenting both Pops and Masterworks concerts throughout the year.

The Midland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale ( MOSC ) has performed in the Permian Basin for over 45 years, and is the region's largest orchestral organization, presenting both Pops and Masterworks concerts throughout the year.

The largest tropical forest zone in Africa are the Congolian forests of the Congo Basin in Central Africa.

The Great Basin is the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds in North America.

The lagoon is the largest wetland in the Mediterranean Basin.