Amazon River is a river in South America is the second longest river in the world - the Nile River is the longest in Africa. The Amazon River has the greatest total flow of any river, carrying more than the Mississippi, Nile, and Yangtze combined. Amazon also has a system peraliran largest of all river systems. Although the longest river Nile, but Amazon may be considered "the strongest".
The amount of fresh water being released into the Atlantic Ocean is enormous: 184,000 m³ per second (6.5 million ft ³) in the rainy season. Amazon flow is one-fifth of the total fresh water entering the sea around the world. The water in the sea near the river has a low salt content up to hundreds of miles away.
The main river (typically has a width of one to six miles) can be passed for large ocean steamers to Manaus, nearly 800 miles up the river from its mouth. Smaller ships weighing 3,000 tons [1] and 5.5 m (18 ft) draft [2] can reach as far as Iquitos, 3,700 km (2,300 miles) from the sea. Small riverboats can reach 780 km (486 miles) further up Achual Point. Passing from there, only small boats can go up to Pongo de Manseriche, above Achual Point.
This river takes water from the coordinates 5 ° N to 20 ° S latitude. The most distant sources are found in the inter-Andean plateau, a short distance to the Pacific Ocean, and after a distance of 7200 km (4,800 miles) through the interior of Peru and across Brazil, he enters the Atlantic Ocean at the equator.
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