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 Apurimac 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 Apurimac confluence, and with other tributaries from the Ucayali, which in turn confluences with the river Maranon upstream of lquitos 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 Solimoes above its confluence with the Rio Negro to form what Brazilians call the Amazon at the Meeting of waters at Manaus, the river's largest city. At an average discharge of about 209,000 cubic metres per second. 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 kilometres. 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.
The headwaters of the Apurimac 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 Apurimac confluence, and with other tributaries from the Ucayali, which in turn confluences with the river Maranon upstream of lquitos 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 Solimoes above its confluence with the Rio Negro to form what Brazilians call the Amazon at the Meeting of waters at Manaus, the river's largest city. At an average discharge of about 209,000 cubic metres per second. 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 kilometres. 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.
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