Amazon River
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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.
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
Amazonas state
Amazon Theatre opera house in Manaus built in 1896 during the rubber boom
Amazon basin
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The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers a large area spreading across the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia
Amazon River
…a title which is disputed with the Nile. The headwaters of the Apurímac River on Nevado Mismi in Peru 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…
Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest, near Manaus
Amazon basin seen from the ISS
Aerial view of part of the Amazon rainforest
Jaguar in the area of Miranda near Amazon basin