Nature is very diverse and surprising.You can spend hours arguing about which man-made attractions better, but it is safe to say one thing: the wonders of nature is always beautiful.Today we talk about the waterways of our planet, try to understand what the river is longer: the Amazon or the Nile.Or maybe the title of the longest in the world is some other?
eternal debate: the Amazon or the Nile
Man have always wondered what mountains are the highest on the planet, which has the largest lake area, which is the vast wilderness.Now we will try to deal with the fact, what the river is longer.Amazon or the Nile?This two options on which beating researchers in recent years.Until recently, in the first place was the sacred Nile, which carries its waters from the depths of Africa, across the sands of the Sahara.South American River is recognized as the most affluent, but the length of it set to a different location.But a recent expedition of Brazilian scientists discovered that the length of the Amazon more.It is 6,800 kilometers, and the river itself begins in the north of Peru, but not in the south, as previously thought.While the length of the Nile is equal to 6695 kilometers.The main rivers in the measurement of a precise definition of the source, because, depending on the length of it can be changed.
Natural champions
So, with the first two champions we have already decided.True, about the Nile or the Amazon longer disputes will still be maintained for a long time.But we know the names of other rivers, which are the greatest in the world, is:
- Yangtze River - the river is not only one of the longest (the third place, 6300 kilometers) in the world, but is the third largest full-flowing.
- Jefferson, Missouri and Mississippi to establish a long river system in the world, a total length of 6,300 kilometers.
- Yellow River (Huang He) carries its waters along the 5464 km and flows into the sea a powerful jet and wave-washed rock stains not only the river but also the sea.
- Ob River - the longest river in Russia.Its length is equal to 3650 km, and with the influx of Irtysh - 4248 km.
- Congo is the main waterway in Central Africa.And the river is the second largest after the Amazon and the deepest first depth.It crosses the equator twice, and its length is 4700 kilometers.
- Mekong carries its waters through China and Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar.The river delta with very advanced - 4,500 kilometers.
- Lena.Beautiful river in northeastern Siberia, carries the waters of Yakutia and the Irkutsk region.Its length - 4480 km, the width of 5-7 km in some places and in some places 20-30.
- Niger, located in West Africa.River starts in Guinea and its waters on the territory of Niger, Mali, Nigeria and Benin.Its length is 4180 kilometers.
Amazing Amazon: origin of the name
So, how long the river, the Amazon or the Nile, we have already found.Now tell about it, the absolute record holder, amazing waterway.Conquistadors discovered her while searching for the fabulous gold country Eldorado.They gave it a name and, having met the Indians with long hair and believe that this is the legendary female warriors described by the ancient Greeks.In another version of the European invaders were amazed that aboriginal women fought alongside men, fiercely resisting the aliens.
Queen of the rivers and its features
It is the name given to the Amazon Indian tribes, has long lived on the banks.In their language it sounds like a couple of Tingo.It makes the world's oceans-fourth of all the waters, and that thread desalinates Atlantic Ocean for four kilometers from the mouth!
Billabong form three large sleeves and a lot of little ones.It lost the picturesque island Meksiana, Mariah, Kaviana.Amazon boasts more than two hundred tributaries, many of whom are full-flowing and shipping.During the wet season in the tropics receive higher rainfall, so the river overflows to epic proportions, and the water level in it rises to ten to fifteen meters.The banks are covered with virgin forest, which is home to a unique fauna.The Amazon inhabited very different fish, caimans, turtles, dolphins, feast-hand manatees.
colorful stream
Amazon carries powerful, swirling flow, washing away sludge from the bottom of that colors its waters white.Its tributary, the Rio Negro, on the contrary, is very clean and transparent, and the waves there are almost black color (hence the name - Black River).In the place where they come together, we can observe an interesting and unique phenomenon: a two-tone water stream rushing from Manaus to the mouth of fifteen kilometers along the coast.
Amazing Amazon inhabitants
Since the Amazon - a unique and wonderful river, the inhabitants in the basin is also unusual.Two and a half thousand species of fish (including the famous piranha with sharp teeth and a giant arapaima and stingrays, and river shark), giant anaconda, the largest rodent capybaras, howler monkeys, tiny hummingbirds - that's just a short list of faunaAmazon.
Flora least rich: slender palm trees and unique fruit trees, cinchona tree, Hevea entangled vines, capable of withstanding an adult.On the surface of the water dissolved Victoria Regia - lily leaves with half meter.No wonder this part of the world known as "green lungs of the planet."The only pity is that the man and his thrift every day affects the state of the natural wonder.Trees are felled, and rare species of flora and fauna is rapidly dying out.
Sacred Nile
So no one has any doubt about what the river is longer: the Amazon or the Nile.But though yuzhnoamerikanki selected from African palm, from this it does not become worse.Neil is the main asset of the continent, its main water artery, the cradle of ancient civilization and the source of life in the desert.The source of the sacred river is located in the East African highlands, and she falls into the Mediterranean Sea.Neal not many tributaries, like the Amazon.It Bahr-el-Ghazal, Sobat, Blue Nile, Achva, Atbara.But all of them are located in the first half of the length of the river, and the last three thousand kilometers Nile carries the waters of semi-desert, with no tributaries.
Lake Victoria Nile forces its way through the rocks, forming a dangerous rapids and waterfalls.Delta African giant's huge.Its area is approximately equal to the area of the Crimean peninsula and the river flows into the sea, divided into several powerful arms.Neil shipping and cruise along it will give the most positive emotions.Instead of an epilogue
So what river is longer?It is necessary to forget what was taught in schools, not the Nile, which rises on the banks of the pyramid, and the amazing Amazon river, which is unique!
