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Victoria amazonica is a species of flowering plant, the second largest in the water lily family Nymphaeaceae. It is called Vitória-Régia or Iaupê-Jaçanã ("the lilytrotter's waterlily") in Brazil and Atun Sisac ("great flower") in Inca (Quechua). Its native region is tropical South America, specifically Guyana and the Amazon Basin.
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The candirú, native to the Amazon River, is a species of parasitic fresh water catfish in the family Trichomycteridae, [97] just one of more than 1200 species of catfish in the Amazon basin. Other catfish 'walk' overland on their ventral fins, [ 98 ] while the kumakuma ( Brachyplatystoma filamentosum ), aka piraiba or "goliath catfish", can ...
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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.
Victoria or giant waterlily [4] is a genus of aquatic herbs in the plant family Nymphaeaceae. [5] Its leaves have a remarkable size: Victoria boliviana produces leaves up to 3.2 metres (10 ft) in width. [2] The genus name was given in honour of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. [2] [6]
A river in the Amazon. Along the Amazon River and many of its tributaries, high annual rainfall that occurs mostly within a rainy season results in extensive seasonal flooding of areas from stream and river discharge. [6] The result is a 10–15 m (33–49 ft) rise in water level, with nutrient rich waters.
White water of the Solimões and black water of the Rio Negro converge to form the Amazon River. The Amazon watershed covers about 5,846,100 square kilometres (2,257,200 sq mi). [12] The Amazon River accounts for 15–16% of the total water discharged by rivers into the oceans of the world. [2] Rivers may be blackwater, whitewater or clearwater.