> it seemed the river was quite full in 2019 and in 2021 seems suddenly most of the river is gone As I understood to the text and the map, most of the land tha

> it seemed the river was quite full in 2019 and in 2021 seems suddenly most of the river is gone As I understood to the text and the map, most of the land that dried are the “marshes, lagoons and meandering streams” mentioned. You can still clearly make out the main stream of the river, which presumably carries the majority of the volume, at the bottom of both images. The rest of the article makes it clear the water levels have been declining for decades.