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Satellite image of the mouth of the Amazon River, from the north looking south. Belém is the major city and port at the mouth of the river at the Atlantic Ocean. The definition of where exactly the mouth of the Amazon is located, and how wide it is, is a matter of dispute, because of the area's peculiar geography.
English: Map of the Amazon River drainage basin with the Amazon River highlighted. Date: ... This vector image was created with Inkscape, or with something else.
NASA satellite image showing the Amazon River Basin where Iquitos Metropolitan Area is located. The Amazon River appears on the lower side of the photograph. Nanay River (black) meeting Amazon (light brown), a continuous phenomenon that occurs very close to the northern shores of , Iquitos
Amazon River basin. Amazon River (includes the Solimões River) Tapajós River. Juruena River. ... Map from Ministry of Transport; GEOnet Names Server This page ...
Amazon River Basin (The southern Guianas, not marked on this map, are a part of the basin.) The mouth of the Amazon River. 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 ...
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.
English: This Envisat image, acquired on 28 September 2008, features the confluence of the Amazon Basin's main ‘black’ and ‘white’ rivers – the Rio Negro (visible flowing east-southeast) and the Solimões (seen flowing along the bottom of the image) respectively – forming the Amazon River just below Manaus, visible in white north of the confluence of the rivers.
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