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Amazon River Batin. Write short note.​

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Answered by ummehaniirfan
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The Amazon River in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the disputed longest river in the worldThe 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 headwaters of the Mantaro River on the Cordillera Rumi Cruz in Peru.[12] The Mantaro and Apurímac rivers join, and with other tributaries form the Ucayali River, which in turn meets the Marañón River upstream of Iquitos, Peru, they 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 forming what Brazilians call the Amazon at the Meeting of water at Manaus.

Answered by Anonymous
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amazon basin is the part of Southern America drained by the Amazon river and also its tributaries. its drainage basin covers an area about 75,000,000 km^2 or we can say about 40% of the southern America. Amazon basin is located in the countries such as Brazil, Peru, etc..

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