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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.
Topography of the Amazon River Basin. 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. [3 ...
A list of rivers in Amazonas (Brazilian state). The list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name and ordered from downstream to upstream. Amazonas is located entirely within the Amazon basin .
There are also substantial areas of the world that do not "drain" in the commonly understood sense. ... Jubba-Shebelle basin: Primary river: Africa: Indian Ocean ...
Most northerly large river system in the world, with northernmost tree line in basin. 9 Purari: Papua New Guinea: 470 kilometres (290 mi) 33,670 square kilometres (13,000 sq mi) 3,000 cubic metres per second (110,000 cu ft/s) 95 cubic kilometres (23 cu mi) Gulf of Papua
Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO): promotion of sustainable development of the Amazon Basin; AMEA: Asia, Middle East and Africa; America (AMER): Usage varies; it may refer to just the United States of America, or just North America, or all of North and South America combined, or some other combination.
ACTO was created in 1978 to promote the preservation of the Amazon basin and regulate Amazonian development through cooperation. Its members are Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru ...
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.