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  1. Amazon, Amazon Rivernoun

    a major South American river; arises in the Andes and flows eastward into the South Atlantic; the world's 2nd longest river (4000 miles)

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  1. Amazon River

    The Amazon River (UK: , US: ; Spanish: Río Amazonas, Portuguese: Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the disputed longest river system in the world in comparison to the Nile.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. The Mantaro and Apurímac rivers join, and with other tributaries form the Ucayali River, which in turn meets the Marañón River upstream of Iquitos, Peru, forming what countries other than Brazil consider to be the main stem of the Amazon. Brazilians call this section the Solimões River above its confluence with the Rio Negro forming what Brazilians call the Amazon at the Meeting of Waters (Portuguese: Encontro das Águas) at Manaus, the largest city on the river. The Amazon River has an average discharge of about 215,000 m3/s (7,600,000 cu ft/s)–230,000 m3/s (8,100,000 cu ft/s)—approximately 6,591 km3 (1,581 cu mi)– 7,570 km3 (1,820 cu mi) per year, greater than the next seven largest independent rivers combined. Two of the top ten rivers by discharge are tributaries of the Amazon river. The Amazon represents 20% of the global riverine discharge into oceans. The Amazon basin is the largest drainage basin in the world, with an area of approximately 7,000,000 km2 (2,700,000 sq mi). The portion of the river's drainage basin in Brazil alone is larger than any other river's basin. The Amazon enters Brazil with only one-fifth of the flow it finally discharges into the Atlantic Ocean, yet already has a greater flow at this point than the discharge of any other river.

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    The Amazon River is one of the world's largest rivers, located in South America. It stretches over 6,400 kilometers (approximately 4,000 miles) and flows across nine countries including Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. Its basin, which is considered to be the most bio-diverse rainforest on the planet, is home to around one-third of the world's species. The river is a vital resource for food, water, transportation, and hydroelectric power, as well as a key focus for conservation and environmental issues.

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  1. Amazon River

    The Amazon River in South America is the second longest river in the world and is by far the largest by waterflow with an average discharge greater than the next seven largest rivers combined. The Amazon, which has the largest drainage basin in the world, about 7,050,000 square kilometres, accounts for approximately one-fifth of the world's total river flow. In fact, the river becomes biggest in the world even just entering Brazil, at only 1/5 of its final discharge into the Atlantic. In its upper stretches, above the confluence of the Rio Negro, the Amazon is called Solimões in Brazil; however, in Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, as well as the rest of the Spanish-speaking world, the river is generally called the Amazon downstream from the confluence of the Marañón and Ucayali rivers in Peru. The Ucayali-Apurímac river system is considered the main source of the Amazon, with as its main headstream the Carhuasanta glacial stream flowing off the Nevado Mismi mountain. The width of the Amazon is between 1.6 and 10 kilometres at low stage but expands during the wet season to 48 kilometres or more. The river enters the Atlantic Ocean in a broad estuary about 240 kilometres wide. The mouth of the main stem is 80 kilometres. Because of its vast dimensions, it is sometimes called The River Sea. The first bridge in the Amazon river system opened on 10 October 2010 near Manaus, Brazil.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of amazon river in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

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    The numerical value of amazon river in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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