Amazon river

The Amazon River, usually abbreviated to The Amazon Spanish and Portuguese: Amazonas, in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and either the longest or second longest. The headwaters of the Apurímac River on Nevado Mismi had been considered for nearly a century as the Amazon’s most distant source, until a 2014 study found it to be the Cordillera Rumi Cruz at the headwaters of the Mantaro River in Peru.[10] The Mantaro and Apurímac join, and with other tributaries form the Ucayali River, which in turn meets the Marañón River upstream of Iquitos, Peru, to form 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[11] to form what Brazilians call the Amazon at the Meeting of Waters at Manaus, the river's largest city. Know more about the Amazon river through the presentation.Read less