Although the Amazon's most distant source has been accepted for nearly a century as the headwaters of the Apurímac river on Nevado Mismi, a 2014 study indicates that the Amazon's most distant source is on the Cordillera Rumi Cruz at the headwaters of the Mantaro river in Peru. The Mantaro and 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. For Brazil this section of the river is the Solimões until it confluences with the Rio Negro at the Meeting of Waters (Portuguese:Encontro das Águas) at Manaus, the river's largest city.
The Amazon averages a discharge of about 209,000 cubic metres per second (7,400,000cuft/s; 209,000,000L/s; 55,000,000USgal/s) — approximately 6,591 cubic kilometres per annum (1,581cumi/a) — which is greater than the next seven largest independent rivers combined. The Amazon basin is the largest drainage basin in the world, with an area of approximately 7,050,000 square kilometres (2,720,000sqmi), and accounts for roughly one-fifth of the world's total river flow. The portion of the river's drainage basin in Brazil alone is larger than any other river's basin. The Amazon enters Brazil with only one-fifth 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.
... both countries will play a positive role in advancing the continuous growth of China-Brazil relations and making China-Brazil friendship "flow unceasingly like the YangtzeRiver and the Amazon River".
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Lin said that China and Brazil enjoy time-honored friendship that is ever-flowing like the YangtzeRiver and the Amazon River, and that has brought the two countries close together despite being thousands of miles apart geographically ... .
CRI... Lin Jian ... 12, 2024 ... CCTV ... China and Brazil enjoy time-honored friendship that is ever-flowing like the YangtzeRiver and the Amazon River and that has brought the two countries close together despite being thousands of miles apart geographically.
to protect the Amazon rainforest ... Where I am from I see the river and the trees form the mist that becomes the clouds and makes the rain. The Amazon is a loop system, it makes the weather ... this river.
AMAZON ALARM. Brazil's Amazon is in the grips of its worst and most widespread drought since records began in 1950. River levels sank to all-time lows this year, while fires ravaged the rainforest.
AMAZON ALARM. Brazil's Amazon is in the grips of its worst and most widespread drought since records began in 1950. River levels sank to all-time lows this year, while fires ravaged the rainforest.
... both countries will play a positive role in advancing the continuous growth of China-Brazil relations and making China-Brazil friendship "flow unceasingly like the YangtzeRiver and the Amazon River".
× This page requires Javascript ... Atkins lives and works in Northwest Georgia, on the south banks of the mighty Etowah River. His latest book, “They All Rest in the Boneyard Now and Other Poems,” is available through Amazon and select bookstores.
Advertisement ...Brazil ... After his release, however, things seemed to take an unusual turn ... The two probable sources of freshwater available to him were the storms themselves and the diluted AmazonRiver plumes intersecting with the ocean currents.” ... .
... of the Amazon rainforest ... Her comments came as Brazil weighs delivering permits to exploit potentially massive oil reserves in the seabed 500 kilometers (300 miles) from the mouth of the Amazon River.
... play a positive role in promoting the continuous development of China-Brazil relations and making the China-Brazil friendship flow unceasingly like the YangtzeRiver and the Amazon River, Xi added.
Colorado Springs Gazette
12 Nov 2024
Colorado Springs Gazette
12 Nov 2024