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A river basin is any area of land that drains into a river system. The Amazon Basin is one specific river basin, namely all the land that drains into the Amazon River system (meaning: including all the streams and creeks that in turn flow into the Amazon.)

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Well the other rivers are either longer but with less volume or shorter. The speciality of the Amazon river is that it is most probably has the most volume than any other river in the world.

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