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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. [3] [21] [n 4]
It can be thought of as a list of the biggest rivers on Earth, measured by a specific metric. For context, the volume of an Olympic-size swimming pool is 2,500 m 3 (88,000 cu ft). The average flow rate at the mouth of the Amazon is sufficient to fill more than 83 such pools each second.
In particular, there seems to exist disagreement as to whether the Nile [3] or the Amazon [4] is the world's longest river. The Nile has traditionally been considered longer, but in 2007 and 2008 some scientists claimed that the Amazon is longer [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] by measuring the river plus the adjacent Pará estuary and the longest connecting ...
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Indonesia's second largest river after the Kapuas. [3] 3 Sepik: Papua New Guinea Indonesia: 1,126 kilometres (700 mi) 80,321 square kilometres (31,012 sq mi) 5,000 cubic metres per second (180,000 cu ft/s) 157.7 cubic kilometres (37.8 cu mi) Pacific Ocean: Often regarded as largest completely pristine river system in the world [4] 4 Pechora: Russia
All basins larger than 400,000 km 2 (150,000 sq mi) are included as well as selected smaller basins. It includes drainage basins which do not flow to the ocean ( endorheic basins ). It includes oceanic sea drainage basins which have hydrologically coherent areas (oceanic seas are set by IHO convention ).
Longest undammed river in the contiguous United States. Maya River: 1,053 km (654 mi) 171,000 km 2 (66,000 sq mi) 1,180 m 3 /s (42,000 cu ft/s) Aldan River: Fly River: 1,050 km (650 mi) 76,000 km 2 (29,000 sq mi) 6,500 m 3 /s (230,000 cu ft/s) Gulf of Papua: Largest completely undammed river system in the world White River: 934 km (580 mi)
This is a list of rivers in the continental United States by average discharge (streamflow) in cubic feet per second. All rivers with average discharge more than 15,000 cubic feet per second are listed.