Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Amozon River

The Amazon River (occasionally River Amazon; Spanish: Río Amazonas, Portuguese: Rio Amazonas) of South America is one of the two longest rivers on Earth, the additional being the Nile in Africa. The Amazon has by far the greatest entire flow of any river, carrying more than the Mississippi, Nile, and Yangtze rivers combined. Its drainage area, called the Amazon Basin, is the biggest of any river system. The Amazon could be well thought-out the "strongest" (largest volume of water per second).

The measure of fresh water released to the Atlantic Ocean is enormous: up to 300,000 m³ per second in the rainy season. Indeed, the Amazon is answerable for a fifth of the total volume of fresh water entering the oceans worldwide. It is said that offshore of the mouth of the Amazon filtered water can be drawn from the ocean while still out of sight of the coastline, and the salinity of the ocean is notably lower a hundred miles out to sea.

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