Amazon River (Spanish: Río Amazonas, Portuguese: Rio Amazonas) is a river in South America which is the second longest river in the world - the Nile River in Africa is the longest. Amazon River has the greatest total flow of any river, carrying more than the Mississippi River, the Nile, and Yangtze combined. Amazon also has the largest peraliran system of all river systems. Although the longest river Nile, but Amazon may be considered "powerful" (seen from the amount of water flowing per second).
Amount of fresh water released into the Atlantic Ocean is enormous: 184,000 m³ per second (6.5 million ft ³) in the rainy season. The flow of the Amazon is one-fifth of the total fresh water entering the sea around the world. The water in the sea near the river has a low salinity up to hundreds of miles away.
The main river (usually has a width of one to six miles) can be impassable for large ocean steamers to Manaus, nearly 800 miles up the river from its mouth. Ship smaller, weighing 3,000 tons [1] and 5.5 m (18 ft) draft [2] can reach as far as Iquitos, 3700 km (2300 miles) from the sea. Small river boats can reach 780 km (486 miles) further up Achual Point. Through from there, only small boats can be up to Pongo de Manseriche, above Achual Point.
This river takes water from the coordinates of 5 ° N to 20 ° LS. Most distant sources discovered in the highlands of inter-Andes, a short distance away with the Pacific Ocean, and after traveling 7200 km (4800 miles) through the interior of Peru and across Brazil, he entered the Atlantic Ocean on the equator.
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