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What are facts about the river amazon?

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Length: The Amazon River is 6280km long.

Source: Carillon, Peru.The Mouth(Delta) is located in North Eastern Brazil.

The Amazon River is the world's second longest river. Only the Nile, in Africa, is longer. The Amazon however, at any one point in time has the highest amount of water flowing down it. No other river even comes close. It may not be the longest, but it is the widest.

The Amazon produces approximately 20 percent of all the water that the world's rivers pour into the oceans on its own.

The Amazon collects water from just over 40 percent of South America's Landmass, through the thousands of tributaries that join the main branch of the Amazon river. Of these tributaries, 17 are over 1600(1000 miles) kilometers long.

From Iquitos in Peru all the way across Brazil to the Atlantic, the Amazon is between six and ten kilometers wide. The maps page has a picture that shows this effect quite well.

The Amazon is even wider when it is flooded in the wet season.

The first European found the amazon because he was 200 miles out to sea and noticed that he was sailing in fresh water. He turned toward shore and found the amazon river. Ships still today anchor in the outflow of the Amazon, to remove the marine life(barnacles) attached to their hulls (salt water organisms can't live in fresh water).

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  • It is the second longest river in the world and the largest river in the world.
  • Its flow is three times greater the flow than all of the other rivers in the USA.
  • Its volume is greater than all the other 8 largest rivers combined.
  • It carries 20% of all fresh water in our oceans.

The Amazon river is 4,000 miles or 6,400 kilometers long. There are many animals in the Amazon river and Basion.Like pink dolophins and frogs etc.
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