Americas Chapter: Amazon River

Mondo Tourism Updated on 2024-01-30

Located in the northern part of South America, the Amazon River is the world's largest river in terms of flow, basin and tributaries. At the same time, the Amazon River is the second longest river in the world - with a total length of 6,440 kilometers and a flow rate of 21 per second90,000 cubic meters, several times more than several other world-famous rivers (such as the Nile, Yangtze River, Mississippi River, etc.), with a basin area of 69150,000 square kilometers, accounting for 40% of the total area of South America;The number of tributaries is more than 1More than 50,000, including 7 tributaries of more than 1,600 kilometers, of which the largest tributary is the 3,200-kilometer-long Madeira River. The Amazon River has a large flow throughout the year, and the flood season of the river enters from October to June every year, especially from March to June every year, which is likely to cause uncontrollable flooding.

Beautiful Amazon River

Amazon River – Flood season.

Amazon River – Partial overlook.

The Amazon River – the living conditions of the surrounding residents.

Amazon River – Geographical Location.

The Amazon River is home to the largest tropical rainforest in the world, the Amazon RainforestIt brings huge water currents to the Amazon rainforest, making the Amazon rainforest home to the largest and largest number of plant and animal species in the world, known as one of the "gene pools of plants and animals";The Amazon rainforest is also known as the "lungs of the world".

Tree otters.

Amazonian piranha.

Crocodile pythons play with each other.

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