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Amazon River

Amazon River (Amazonia)
Apurímac, Ene, Tambo, Ucayali, Amazonas, Solimões
River
Sunset on the Amazon (7613489930).jpg
Countries Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador
Tributaries
 - left Marañón, Japurá/Caquetá, Rio Negro/Guainía, Putumayo
 - right Ucayali, Purús, Madeira, Tapajós, Xingu
City Iquitos (Peru); Leticia (Colombia);
Tabatinga (Brazil); Tefé (Brazil);
Itacoatiara (Brazil) Parintins (Brazil);
Óbidos (Brazil); Santarém (Brazil);
Almeirim (Brazil); Macapá (Brazil); Manaus (Brazil)
Source Rio Mantaro
 - location Huancayo, Huancayo Province, Peru
 - elevation 5,220 m (17,126 ft)
 - coordinates 10°43′55″S 76°38′52″W / 10.73194°S 76.64778°W / -10.73194; -76.64778
Mouth Atlantic Ocean
 - elevation 0 m (0 ft)
 - coordinates 0°42′28″N 50°5′22″W / 0.70778°N 50.08944°W / 0.70778; -50.08944Coordinates: 0°42′28″N 50°5′22″W / 0.70778°N 50.08944°W / 0.70778; -50.08944 
Length 6,992 km (4,345 mi)
Basin 7,050,000 km2 (2,722,000 sq mi)
Discharge
 - average 209,000 m3/s (7,381,000 cu ft/s)
Map showing the Amazon drainage basin with the Amazon River highlighted

The Amazon River (US /ˈæməzɒn/ or UK /ˈæməzən/; Spanish and Portuguese: ) in South America is the largest river by discharge of water in the world, and according to some experts, the longest in length.

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 and Apurímac confluence, and with other tributaries form the Ucayali River, which in turn confluences with the Marañón River upstream of Iquitos, Peru, to form what countries other than Brazil consider to be the main stem of the Amazon. Brazilians call this section the Solimões River 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.


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