Dr. Edmar Bernardes DaSilva (Masters in Geography and Doctor of Geography Education)
The mighty Amazon River is 6280km long. The river starts in Peru as very small stream. It becomes gigantic inside Brazil (where most of it is located) and the mouth and Delta of the Amazon River is located in Northern Brazil (Pará state).
The Amazon River is the world's second longest river. Only the Nile River, in Africa, is longer. Of all rivers in the world, the Amazon River is the most imposing. In fact, the amount of water the Amazon River carries out to sea is estimated at 20% of all the freshwater that is discharged into the oceans.
The Amazon is not the longest, but it is the widest of them all. The Amazon River collects water from over 40% of South America's Landmass, through the thousands of tributaries that join the main branch of the Amazon River.
News on the Amazon River: scientists at the University of Liverpool discovered that the Amazon River is 11 millions years old (Source: TopNews.in)
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