The Amazon River is the world's second longest river and is located in Brazil.
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THE AMAZON RIVER
by Sean
The Amazon River in South America is the second longest
river in the world after the Nile. It is 4,080 miles long and runs from the
Andes Mountains in Peru through Brazil to the Atlantic Ocean. It contains more
water than any other river in the world- more than the Mississippi, the Nile and
the Yangtze combined. In one second the Amazon pours more than 55 million
gallons, or 600,000 cubic meters of water, into the Atlantic Ocean, which
dilutes the ocean’s saltiness for 100 miles from shore.
This river system is one of the world’s most
important river systems. The Amazon River makes up for 1/5 of the earth’s
fresh water. Each year the Amazon River empties tons of solid particles into the
Ocean. This contains lots of fish food.
The Amazon is the widest river in the world. Many kilometers
from its mouth it can be as wide as 11 kilometers, and 40 kilometers in the wet
season; at the place where it meets the Atlantic, it is as much as 325 kilometers.
It is interesting that it is widening by as much as 2 meters a year due to waves
from ships breaking down the banks. Compare the Amazon to the width of the Bow
River in Calgary, which is only 350 feet, or 107 meters wide, as it leaves the
city limits. This means that the Amazon is from 100 to 3,000 times wider near
its mouth than the Bow River in Calgary!
The Amazon got its name from the Spanish explorers.
Female warriors called "Icamiabas", meaning "women without
husbands" attacked Francisco Orellana. Orellana named the river "Rio
Amazonas" after these women whom he compared to the Amazons of ancient
Greek mythology.
The Amazon River basin is the home of so many animals-
especially "extreme" creatures, like catfish which, in the U.S., grow
up to 40 lbs., but in Brazil have been measured up to 200 lbs. There is also the
anaconda, the largest snake in the world and the piranha, the most ferocious
fish in the world. The Amazon River has 2,000 different species of fish, an
extreme number
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