The Amazon River in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the second-longest or longest river system in the world, a title which is disputed with the Nile.
Satellite image of the Amazon Delta
Old drawing (from 1879) of Arapaima fishing at the Amazon River. The arapaima has been on Earth for at least 23 million years.
Amazon tributaries near Manaus
Peruvian Amazonia, informally known locally as the Peruvian jungle or just the jungle, is the area of the Amazon rainforest in Peru, east of the Andes and Peru's borders with Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil
The Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian Amazonia
The Amazon rainforest in Manu National Park
Peruvian researcher Tatiana Espinosa [es] next to the Dipteryx micrantha tree
Amazon River floating village neighborhood in Iquitos