More recently, in all geographical reference books and textbooks was reported that the longest river on the planet - the Nile.Today, scientists believe differently and argue that the biggest river in the world - the Amazon.According to them, there are several reasons.After the construction of the Aswan High Dam in 1960, Neil became shorter and conducted new research and refinement, made using satellite data have shown that the Amazon from its source Ucayali total length of more than seven thousand kilometers, which is much higher than that of the Nile.
Outperforms Amazon
But Amazon, except for the largest length, is the owner of several records.It has the largest pool area - almost 7.2 million. Km2.And Amazon - the most abundant river in the world.Due to the abundance of precipitation, regular drop-down near the equator in the vast territory of its basin, every hour it makes in the Atlantic Ocean about 643 billion. Liters of fresh water.
More than 500 tributaries flows into the Amazon.And many of them - large independent streams.The largest of the left tributaries - the Rio Negro, and the most significant of the right - Madeira.If you put together the length of all bodies of water pools, their total length will exceed twenty-five thousand kilometers.
biggest river in the world in the place of the confluence of the Ucayali has a width of 2 km, in the middle course - 5 km, and the bottom - 15-20 km, and in some places it reaches 80 km.Sailing boat in the middle of the bed, the banks can not see.The fact that you are floating on the river yet, not by sea, can only be determined by the color of the water.Due to the large amount of water in sand and sludge, it yellow and cloudy.
mouth of the Amazon - this is one of record levels.The width of the largest deltas in the world reached 325 kilometers.More than half the length of the channel from the Atlantic Ocean is navigable.It turns out that on all the parameters of the Amazon - really the biggest river in the world.
Beauty Amazon
admiring the wild beauty and paying tribute to its mighty power, the local Indians Amazon respectfully called the "Queen of rivers".The rich and extremely varied flora, bright saturated colors of the equatorial forest, its yellow water and the dark waters of the tributaries rightfully give grounds to assert that it is - the most beautiful river in the world.
only on its banks to see such an amazing combination of unusual trees.Papaya fruit is valued for its mahogany - wood, cinchona - bark, Hevea - juice, used to make rubber, and there is chocolate tree.And this diversity is intertwined with vines, forming a solid green wall along the coast.And in the quiet surface of the water in the oxbow lakes and countless Inflow rocking the world's largest water lily - Victoria Regia whose leaves reach one and a half meters in diameter.
biggest river in the world and is famous for its unique fauna.More than 2500 species of fish inhabit its murky waters, including the famous piranha, river sharks, pink dolphins, huge stingrays, two-meter electric eels and fish-bull.
