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Samuel Fritz's 1707 map showing the Amazon and the Orinoco. Gonzalo Pizarro set off in 1541 to explore east of Quito into the South American interior in search of El Dorado, the "city of gold" and La Canela, the "valley of cinnamon". [43] He was accompanied by his second-in-command Francisco de Orellana.
English: Map of the Amazon River drainage basin with the Amazon River highlighted. Date: 25 February 2013, 11:59:10: Source .
This SVG map uses embedded raster graphics to show its topographic structures. Thumbnail with colored legend in caption Francisco de Orellana Amazon River voyage (1541-1542) ( interactive map )
NASA satellite image showing the Amazon River Basin where Iquitos Metropolitan Area is located. The Amazon River appears on the lower side of the photograph. Nanay River (black) meeting Amazon (light brown), a continuous phenomenon that occurs very close to the northern shores of , Iquitos
Amazon River (Brazil) Negro River (Brazil) Branco River (Brazil) Takutu River. Ireng River; Courantyne River [1] Kutari River; Coeroeni River; New River (South America)
Amazon River basin. Amazon River (includes the Solimões River) Tapajós River. ... Map from Ministry of Transport; GEOnet Names Server This page was last ...
The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 1 ] or about 35.5 percent of the South American continent.
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.