AMAZONRIVER

Amazon River

The Amazon River in South America is generally regarded as the second longest river in the world and is by far the largest by waterflow with an average discharge of about 209,000 cubic meters per second, greater than the next seven largest rivers combined . The Amazon, which has the largest drainage basin in the world, about, accounts for approximately one-fifth of the world's total river flow. The river would have the biggest drainage basin in the world even just counting Brazil, which it enters with only one-fifth of the volume that will finally be discharged into the Atlantic.

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