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The Amazon River (UK: / ˈ æ m ə z ən /, US: / ˈ æ m ə z ɒ n /; Spanish: Río Amazonas, Portuguese: Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the longest or second-longest river system in the world, a title which is disputed with the Nile.
Map of the Amazon River drainage basin with the Amazon River highlighted The Amazon River drainage basin; with the Casiquiare River, a distributary of the Orinoco River flowing southward into the Negro River, in Venezuela, South America. As such, it forms a unique natural canal between the Orinoco and Amazon river systems.
The Rio Negro (Spanish: Río Negro [ˈri.o ˈneɣɾo] "Black River"), or Guainía as it is known in its upper part, is the largest left tributary of the Amazon River (accounting for about 14% of the water in the Amazon basin), the largest blackwater river in the world, [8] and one of the world's ten largest rivers by average discharge.
Amazonía region in southern Colombia comprises the departments of Amazonas, Caquetá, Guainía, Guaviare, Putumayo and Vaupés, and covers an area of 483,000 km 2, 35% of Colombia's total territory. The region is mostly covered by tropical rainforest , or jungle, which is a part of the greater Amazon rainforest .
Amazonas (Spanish pronunciation:) is a department of Southern Colombia. It is the largest department in area while having the third smallest population among the departments. Its capital is Leticia and its name comes from the Amazon River, which drains the department. It is made up entirely of Amazon Rainforest territory.
Leticia (Spanish pronunciation:) is the southernmost city in the Republic of Colombia, capital of the department of Amazonas, Colombia's southernmost town (4.09° south 69.57° west) and one of the major ports on the Amazon River. It has an elevation of 96 meters (315') above sea level and an average temperature of 27 °C (80.6 °F).
In the Pacific Ocean, Colombia only has borders with three countries (Costa Rica, Ecuador and Panama), all of which are defined by current treaties. The Pacific is the site of a large part of the country's exports and imports of products. Colombia's maritime territory in these waters totals 339.200 km 2 (130.966 sq mi).
The Amazon Trapeze, which emerges from a vaster territory to the north, is one of two parts of the Amazonas Department in Colombia. The Amazon Trapeze is located between the Putumayo River to the north and the Amazon River to the south, and between the border with Brazil to the east and the border with Peru to the west. Thus, a trapezoidal ...