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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.
Amazon River basin. Amazon River (includes the Solimões River) Tapajós River. Juruena River. Bararati River; Nhamundá River. Piratucu River; Mamuru River. Uaicurapa River; Andirá River; Paraná Urariá (Amazon and Madeira side channel) Maués Açu River. Urupadi River; Amanã River; Paracori River; Parauari River; Apoquitaua River; Paraconi ...
The Amazon Delta (Portuguese: delta do Amazonas) is a vast river delta formed by the Amazon River and the Tocantins River (through the Pará River distributary channel) in northern South America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is located in the Brazilian states of Amapá and Pará [ 4 ] and encompasses the Marajó Archipelago , with Marajó Island as its ...
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.
MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) -The Amazon River fell to its lowest level in over a century on Monday at the heart of the Brazilian rainforest as a record drought upends the lives of hundreds of ...
The largest river system in Brazil is the Amazon, which originates in the Andes and receives tributaries from a basin that covers 45.7% of the country, principally the north and west. [1] The main Amazon river system is the Amazonas-Solimões-Ucayali axis (the 6,762-kilometer (4,202 mi)-long Ucayali is a Peruvian tributary), flowing from west ...
Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday said that next week's summit of Amazon region nations will seek to draw up a common policy for the first time to protect the rainforest. The ...
The river the fish calls home is an affluent of the rio Madeira, “one of the largest and most species-rich” river systems in the Amazon basin, the researchers said.