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US /ˈæməzɒn/
UK /ˈæməzən/
“amazonas”
(‘spanish’ + ‘portuguese’)
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*the largest river (by ‘discharge of water’) in the world*
and (according to some experts), the longest in ‘length’)
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(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’)
(the ‘mantaro’ + ‘apurímac’ confluence, and with other ‘tributaries’ form the ‘ucayali’, which in turn confluences with the ‘river marañón’ upstream of ‘iquitos’ (/ ‘peru’), to form what countries other than ‘brazil’ consider to be the main stem of the ‘amazon’)
(brazilians call this section of the river the ‘solimões’ above its confluence with the ‘rio negro’ to form what brazilians call the ‘amazon’ at the ‘meeting of waters’ (portuguese: encontro das águas) at ‘manaus’, the river’s largest city)
(at an ‘average discharge’ of about ‘209,000 cubic meters’ per second (‘7,400,000 cu ft/s’ / ‘209,000,000 L/s’ / ‘55,000,000 USgal/s’) — approximately 6,591 cubic kilometers per annum (‘1,581 cu mi/a’), greater than the next 7 largest independent rivers combined — the ‘amazon’ represents 20% of the ‘global riverine discharge’ to the ‘ocean’)
(the ‘amazon basin’ is the ‘largest drainage basin’ in the world, with an area of approximately ‘7,050,000 square kilometers’ (or ‘2,720,000 square miles’))
(the portion of the river’s ‘drainage basin’ in ‘brazil’ alone is larger than any other river’s basin)
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(the ‘amazon’ enters ‘brazil’ with only ‘1/5’ of the flow it finally discharges into the ‘atlantic ocean’, yet already has a greater flow at this point than the ‘discharge’ of any other ‘river’)
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