This South American river carries nearly 20% of the Earth's total water discharge to the ocean
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Print - Grolier  The river carries nearly 20% of the Earth's total water discharge to the ocean; ... the ocean water of the Atlantic Ocean 160 km (100 mi) beyond the coastline. .... Reaching a height of 305 m (1,000 ft), it is the tallest structure in South America.
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Amazon River | Scholastic.com  It carries nearly 20% of the Earth's total water discharge to the ocean in a flow so ... The Amazon is generally considered the world's second-longest river, after the Nile, ... ground in the upper reaches of its many tributaries, to both the north and the south. .... Geography and Map Skills, Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, South America.
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amazonswim.com - The Amazon: The Worlds Largest Rainforest  The Amazon River Basin is home to the largest rainforest on Earth. ... More than 20 percent of the world oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rainforest. ... river in terms of discharge, and just recently announced by BBC, the longest river in ... km) across the South American continent until it enters the Atlantic Ocean at Belem,...
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Unique Facts About South & Central America: : The Amazon River  The Amazon has by far the greatest total flow of any river, carrying more than the ... The quantity of fresh water released to the Atlantic Ocean is enormous: ... It gathers its waters from 5 degrees north latitude to 20 degrees south latitude. ... rainy season is 40 m (120 ft) and the average width can be nearly twenty-five miles.
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Amazon River - Wikipedia  The Amazon River 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 Apurmac River on Nevado Mismi had been considered for nearly a century ..... Four centuries after the European discovery of the Amazon river, the total...
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World's Biggest Oceans & Seas | Pacific & Atlantic Oceans  Jun 4, 2010 ... Oceans and seas make up 70 percent of the Earth's surface, though some ... Possessing a counterclockwise current, the Caribbean Sea's water ... Forming part of the major trade route between India and the ... The world's second largest ocean, the Atlantic Ocean covers about 21 percent of Earth's surface.
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Amazon River - Wikipedia  The Amazon River in South America is the largest river by discharge of water in the world, and ... The portion of the river's drainage basin in Brazil alone is larger than any other river's basin. ..... It has a series of major tributaries in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, some of which flow into the Maran and Ucayali, and others...
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Rio de la Plata - The people | estuary, South America | Britannica.com  Oct 10, 2014 ... Spanish River of Silver a tapering intrusion of the Atlantic Ocean on the east ... Buenos Aires, on the Argentinian shore, is the centre of one of the world's largest ... region near Ro de la Plata in Argentina and the prairies of Uruguay ... traversed the estuary as part of its effort to find a route to the Pacific; the...
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To Keep a River Running | Earth Island Journal | Earth Island Institute  From its sources in Mato Grosso State, the Tapajs flows 1,200 miles and falls ... Its basin covers 155,000 square miles, an area the size of Florida, and nearly a tenth of ... miles in extent, giving South America a Great Lakes system like North ... expanded north to the Amazon, and into the Xingu and Madeira river basins.
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Amazon River | Facts, History, Animals, & Map | Britannica.com  Streams of the Andes Mountains converge, eventually forming the Amazon ... In Brazil the name of the river that flows from Peru to its confluence with the Negro River is Solimes; from the Negro out to the Atlantic the river is called Amazonas. ... source as being the farthest point from which water could flow into the ocean...
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Amazon River - Wikipedia  The Amazon River in South America is the largest river by discharge of water in the world, and ... The portion of the river's drainage basin in Brazil alone is larger than any other river's basin. .... Amazon, investigating many of its tributaries, including the Rio Negro, and covering a distance of more than 10,000 km (6,214 mi).
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What Is The World's Widest River? - Universe Today  All of this makes the South American river the largest drainage system in the world, according to ... Astronomy Cast has an episode on Earth you should watch.
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8 Mighty Rivers Run Dry From Overuse -- National Geographic  March 22 is World Water Day, a time to reflect on the state of the world's freshwater. ... It provides water for 30 million people, and has many dams and diversions along ..... freshwater and preserve the extraordinary diversity of life that rivers, lakes, and ... For more than 15 years, Osvel Hinojosa Huerta has been resurrecting...
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Where is all of the Earth's water? - NOAA's National Ocean Service
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The Amazing Amazon River | Discover Peru  Where the river meets the Atlantic Ocean its width reaches 150 miles or 240 km. ... River flows east from the Peruvian Andes across Brazil and empties into the ... most distant source is the melting snow cap of a mountain called Nevado Mismi in ... The Amazon River is more than just one river, hundreds of small streams join...
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Soviet Union - Sheppard Software  OK The Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the world's largest estuary, is the outlet of North America's ... The river flows into the gulf through the Jacques Cartier Strait between the ... 20% of Earth's surface, the Atlantic Ocean is second only to the Pacific in size. .... from Cape Sable, Florida, to the northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula.
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Columbia River - Wikipedia  The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. .... Its drainage basin covers nearly all of Idaho, large portions of British ... from Europe and Africa and into the Panthalassic Ocean (ancestor to the modern Pacific ... with discharges 10 times the combined flow of all the rivers of the world,...
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Amazon River - Wikipedia  The Amazon River in South America is the largest river by discharge of water in the world, and ... The Amazon enters Brazil with only one-fifth of the flow it finally discharges into .... After 170 km, the Coca River joined the Napo River (at a point now known as ..... It is often said to be "at least" 6,400 kilometres (4,000 mi) long.
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Maury's New Elements of Geography for Primary and Intermediate ...  Jul 10, 2013 ... It lies between the Atlantic ocean on the east and the Pacific ocean on the west. ... Many of these ranges together make up the Rocky mountains. ... The southern slope is drained by the Mississippi river and its branches, which form the chief ..... "The Father of Waters" has a great many rivers flowing into it.
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South America - 2 | Britannica.com  Results 1 - 100 of 266 ... Amazon River the greatest river of South America and the largest drainage ... in southwestern Brazil, forming the Brazil-Paraguay border. ... Its limits are not exactly determined, but it lies mainly between the south bend of the Loa .... in the country of Trinidad and Tobago in the southern Caribbean Sea.
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Geography Facts - Weird Facts  The area that is now the Mediterranean Sea was once dry, but about 5 million ... Forty-six percent of the world's water is in the Pacific Ocean; that's around 6 sextillion ... About one-tenth of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice. .... The Great Lakes have a combined area of 94,230 square miles - larger than the...