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The Amazon Canyon is a submarine canyon within the Amazon Fan in the Atlantic Ocean, located approximately 200 mi (322 km) from the mouth of the Amazon River, near South America. It covers an area of 2,250 km 2 (870 sq mi). [ 1 ]
The Marañón River (Spanish: Río Marañón, IPA: [ˈri.o maɾaˈɲon], Quechua: Awriq mayu) is the principal or mainstem source of the Amazon River, arising about 160 km to the northeast of Lima, Peru, and flowing northwest across plateaus 3,650 m (12,000 feet) high, [4] it runs through a deeply eroded Andean valley, along the eastern base of ...
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.
Amazon Canyon, extending from the Amazon River off the coast of Brazil; Avilés Canyon, off the coast of Asturias, Spain; Baltimore Canyon, off the coast of Maryland; Congo Canyon, extending from the Congo River off the coast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Great Bahama Canyon, between the islands of The Bahamas
It flows north-north-west for 724 km (450 mi) before coalescing with the Tambo River to form the Ucayali River. The Urubamba is divided into the Upper Urubamba and the Lower Urubamba, the dividing feature being the Pongo de Mainique, an infamous whitewater canyon, where the river narrows to a width of 45 metres (148 ft).
The Juan de Fuca Channel carries more water than the Amazon River. And the Amazon is Earth's biggest river, by discharge volume of water. The Juan de Fuca Channel reaches to the opening of the Juan de Fuca Strait, which separates the United States and Canada. The canyon is just less than 4 miles (6.4 km) wide and at least 450 yards (410 m) deep ...
It is known as the headwaters of the Amazon River. The brook is fed by the winter snows of Nevado Mismi , (5,597 m), some 6,400 kilometers from the Atlantic Ocean . Of all the possible river sources in the Amazon Basin , it is the snow melt of the Carhuasanta that has been calculated by cartographers to be one of the furthermost water sources ...
Mismi is a 5,597-metre (18,363 ft) mountain peak of volcanic origin in the Chila mountain range in the Andes of Peru.A glacial stream on the Mismi was identified as the most distant source of the Amazon River in 1996; [1] this finding was confirmed in 2001 [2] and again in 2007. [3]