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The headwaters of the Apurímac River on Nevado Mismi had been considered, for nearly a century, the Amazon basin's most distant source until a 2014 study found it to be the headwaters of the Mantaro River on the Cordillera Rumi Cruz in Peru. [28]
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.
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 ...
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]
The average flow rate at the mouth of the Amazon is sufficient to fill more than 83 such pools each second. The estimated global total for all rivers is 1.2 × 10 6 m 3 /s (43 million cu ft/s), [ 1 ] of which the Amazon would be approximately 18%.
In 1971, an expedition led by the National Geographic Society cited the Apurímac River as the designated headwaters of the Amazon River, with a follow-up expedition in 2000 confirming the connected Lake Ticlla Cocha as the furthest upstream Amazon extension. [5]
The rivers of Ecuador are an important part of the nation's geography and economy. Most of the over 2,000 rivers and streams [1] have headwaters in the Andes mountain range, flowing therefrom either westward toward the Pacific Ocean or eastward toward the Amazon River. [2]
The Marañón River (Spanish: Río Marañón, IPA: [ˈri.o maɾaˈɲon], Quechua: Awriq mayu) is the principal or mainstem source of the Amazon River, arising about 160 km to the northeast of Lima, Peru, and flowing northwest across plateaus 3,650 m (12,000 feet) high, [4] it runs through a deeply eroded Andean valley, along the eastern base of ...