Amazon
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Length
6,400 km
Coordinates
-3.4653, -58.3800
Category
rivers
Overview
Greatest river by volume - drains the world's largest tropical rainforest.
About
The Amazon River in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the second-longest or longest river system in the world, a title which is disputed with the Nile.
More about Amazon
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article “Amazon River”, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read full article