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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.
The Marañón River was considered the source of the Amazon River starting with the 1707 map published by Padre Samuel Fritz, [4]: 58 who indicated the great river "has its source on the southern shore of a lake that is called Lauriocha, near Huánuco." Fritz believed that the Marañón contributed the most water of all the Amazon's tributaries ...
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.
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.
It runs through the Amazon Rainforest and is a major tributary of the Amazon River. When combined with the Juruena River , the Tapajós is approximately 2,080 km (1,290 mi) long. [ 2 ] It is one of the largest clearwater rivers , [ 10 ] accounting for about 6% of the water in the Amazon basin .
Map of the Tres Fronteras produced by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency. Tres Fronteras (Portuguese: Três Fronteiras, English: Three Frontiers) is an area of the Amazon rainforest in the Upper Amazon region of South America. It includes, and is named for, the tripoint where the borders of Brazil, Peru, and Colombia meet.
The Purus River (Portuguese: Rio Purus; Spanish: Río Purús) is a tributary of the Amazon River in South America. Its drainage basin is 371,042 km 2 (143,260 sq mi), and the mean annual discharge is 11,207 m 3 /s (395,800 cu ft/s).