Amazon River

The Amazon Basin in northern South America includes roughly 40 percent of the land area of the continent. The basin is mostly in Brazil, but includes part of the countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. The area contains vast regions of rainforest, so the climate in the central valley is hot and rainy. The western part of the valley reaches the mountains of the Andes.

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The Amazon River is the world's second longest river, c.3,900 mi (6,280 km) long, formed by the junction in N Peru's Andes Mts. of two major headstreams, the Ucayali and the shorter Marañón. It flows across N Brazil before entering the Atlantic Ocean near Belém. For the source and more detailed information concerning your request, click on the related links section (Answers.com) indicated below this answer box.

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people are cutting down trees so the animals are loosing their habitat...

6 miles high =]

Each is a main source of water for communities around them. They feed the rivers and lakes in small towns and cities dotted along their path. A decrease or increase in river lines affects millions of people.

It depends on if the animals above have landed their droppings in it but besides that it is a river so it is definitely fine to drink out of but unlike oceans it is not salt water.

Its nice, to get fish. & everything

The Brahmaputra River spans through Bangladesh, China and India.Its source is the Chemayungdung Glacier and and the length of it runs for 1,802 miles.

Jellyfish need to live in the sea, not in a rainforest.

Every fish is carnivorous

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Soil in the tropical rainforest's is very nutrient poor. The topsoil is only one to two inches (2.5 to 5 centimeters) deep. The only reason plant life is so lush is because the plants store the nutrients in themselves rather than getting them from the soil. When plants decay, other growing plants tap the nutrients from the dead matter and reuse nutrients left over from that plant. This is why farmers can only use the rainforest's soil for one or two years after they clear cut it, before all nutrients are stripped from the soil. The reason the soil so infertile is because it is more than 100 million years old, and has taken a beating from the elements. After time, rain washes minerals out of the soil, leaving it more acidic and nutrient poor. Soil exposed to the heat and condensed sunlight turns it into red clay. Other soils just cannot deal with minerals, and turn it into compounds useless to plants. There are some fertile patches of soil in the rainforest's, but they are scattered throughout the thick vegetation.

---- ====== ====== The Vegetation in the Amazon Rainforest is very dense and thick and I think it is BEAUTIFUL!

when the river floods,many people loose their lifes, if there are factories or farms near the river, acid rain can take place by pesticides(eg.DDT), and the DDT can join up with the moisture and so the nature gets totally messed up!!

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the red bellied piranha,eletric eel,specatled caiman and largest snake anaconda

because more goods are shipped using the river than the Amazon which is only used for shipping lumber and other tools they need to do so

Yes they do. At night, they shut off half there brains which allows them to be alert of enemy's and not drown when sleeping. One side of their brains sleeps while the other concentrates on staying alive and natural functions such as breathing. Once that side was asleep is refreshed it swaps round, so the other side gets a chance of rest and respite.

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Yes they are settlements throughout the amazon ofter at road junctions or where waterways meet roads!

Farmers in the Amazon River Basin have blamed mining for the cause of reduction in soil fertility. This part of the river once had large rain forests that were very fertile, if left alone. When the rain forest was cleared of vegetation it took all the nutrients from the soil with it.

The biggest waterfall in the Amazon river is the Ocapocysic waterfall

Just the South Atlantic Ocean.

The speed of the flow changes depending on season, rainfall, width, depth, gradient and where in the river you measure it. However the total outflow averages approximately 209,000 m3/s (7,381,000 cu ft/s).