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The Amazon River is the largest river in the world in terms of its flow rate. In addition, it is the second longest river, measuring 6,575 km (4,086 mi) [3] from its source to the mouth of the Atlantic Ocean [4] after the Nile River which is considered to be the longest river in the world (see Source of the Nile River), although there is some dispute.
The Amazon represents 20% of the global riverine discharge into oceans. [30] The Amazon basin is the largest drainage basin in the world, with an area of approximately 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi). [3] The portion of the river's drainage basin in Brazil alone is larger than any other river's basin.
It is known as the headwaters of the Amazon River. The brook is fed by the winter snows of Nevado Mismi , (5,597 m), some 6,400 kilometers from the Atlantic Ocean . Of all the possible river sources in the Amazon Basin , it is the snow melt of the Carhuasanta that has been calculated by cartographers to be one of the furthermost water sources ...
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.
Location of the Marañón within the Amazon Basin. For most of the 18th–19th centuries and into the 20th century, the Marañón River was generally considered the source of the Amazon. Later explorations have proposed two headwaters rivers of the Marañón in the high Andes as sources of the Amazon: the Lauricocha and Nupe Rivers.
Ene River Map of the landscape relief around the Ene River in southeastern Peru. The Ene River (Spanish: Río Ene; Quechua: Iniy mayu) is a Peruvian river on the eastern slopes of the Andes. It is a headwater of the Amazon River.
Mismi is a 5,597-metre (18,363 ft) mountain peak of volcanic origin in the Chila mountain range in the Andes of Peru.A glacial stream on the Mismi was identified as the most distant source of the Amazon River in 1996; [1] this finding was confirmed in 2001 [2] and again in 2007. [3]
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