The Amazon River is considered the most full-flowing in the world. Located in northern South America. The Amazon River starts in Peru and ends in Brazil. It is established that it carries a fifth of the total volume of fresh water on the planet.
Characteristics of the Amazon River
It was formed by the confluence of Ucayali and Marañon. A significant part of the basin belongs to Brazil. Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia include the western and southwestern regions. Most of it flows through the Amazon lowland near the equator; The river flows into the Atlantic Ocean and forms the largest delta in the world. Its area is more than one hundred thousand square kilometers and includes the largest river island in the world - Marajo.
The Amazon River is fed by numerous tributaries. Approximately twenty of them are more than one and a half thousand kilometers long.
Amazon River Regime
In the lower reaches, the average discharge is about 220 thousand km3. Depending on the season, it ranges from seventy to three hundred thousand cubic meters per second or more. On average, the flow is about seven thousand cubic kilometers per year. This is about fifteen percent of the total annual flow of all rivers on the planet. Solid stock is more than a billion tons.
The Amazon River and its tributaries together form a system whose waterways are more than twenty-five thousand kilometers long. The main channel is navigable for 4.3 thousand kilometers to the Andes.
The Amazon River is opened by Francisco de Orellana. This European was the first to cross the widest part of South America.
During the dry season, the width of the river is about eleven kilometers. During the rainy season, the size triples. The width of the delta is about three hundred twenty-five kilometers.
The flora that lives in the river is only a third studied by scientists. It has been established that about twenty-five percent of the world's medicinal substances that are used in medicine are extracted from plants in nearby forests. About 1800 species of birds, two hundred and fifty different mammals live in these territories. The river is inhabited by more than two thousand different species of fish. Dolphins (pink) and bullfish (its length is about four meters and its weight is five hundred kilograms) also live in it. The famous piranha fish also lives in the Amazon.
In this unique area, without any exaggeration, there are about one and a half thousand species of flowers, seven hundred and fifty species of trees, countless invertebrates and insects.
The Amazon River is 6992.06 kilometers long. It should be said that the Nile is one hundred and forty kilometers shorter.
The Amazon River is the deepest. This is due to the fact that it flows almost along the equator. The rainy season begins in the southern part (from October toApril), then in the north (from March to September). In this regard, the river actually flows in conditions of constant flood.
The source is located at an altitude of five thousand meters, in the Peruvian Andes. The starting point is thus located in the south of Peru, and not in the north, as previously thought. After the exact length of the river was established, the Amazon became not only the deepest, but also the longest in the world.
