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Amazon River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Along with the Orinoco, the river is one of the main habitats of the Boto, also known as the Amazon River Dolphin. Manaus, the largest city on the Amazon, as seen from a NASA satellite image, surrounded by the muddy Amazon River and the dark Negro River. The bore is the reason the Amazon does not have a delta; the ocean rapidly carries away the vast volume of silt carried by the Amazon, making it impossible for a delta to grow. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amazon_River   (2885 words)

Amazon (river) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Amazon (river) The biodiversity of the River Amazon and its surrounding forest is huge; here there are 3,000 known species of land vertebrates, 2,000 species of freshwater fish, 80,000 known species of trees, and 55,000 species of flowering plant (of which half are exclusive to Amazonia). Most of the tributaries of the Amazon are navigable by smaller river craft, but waterfalls and rapids (generally found near the tributaries' junction with the main river) prevent unimpeded travel throughout the whole river system. From their sources in the high Andes, the Amazon's two main headstreams flow northeast until they join near the town of Nauta in eastern Peru. encyclopedia.farlex.com /Amazon+(river)   (1557 words)

Amazon (river) - MSN Encarta Amazon (river) (Portuguese and Spanish Amazonas), river in northern South America, largely in Brazil, ranked as the largest in the world in terms of watershed area, number of tributaries, and volume of water discharged. The major headstreams of the Amazon are the Ucayali and Marañón rivers, both of which rise in the permanent snows and glaciers of the high Andes Mountains. Some authorities believe that the river was named after the Amazons, women warriors of Greek mythology who were thought to reside in the region. encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761571466/Amazon_(river).html   (1133 words)

Amazon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Amazon River, Amazon Rainforest, and Amazon Basin through which it flows. Amazonas, the name of several administrative divisions in South America named after the river, including: Dahomey Amazons, an all-female regiment of the African kingdom of Dahomey. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amazon   (284 words)

The Amazon Rainforest The basin is drained by the Amazon River, the world's largest river in terms of discharge, and the second longest river in the world after the Nile. Today the Amazon River is the most voluminous river on Earth, eleven times the volume of the Mississippi, and drains an area equivalent in size to the United States. The result from the silt deposited at the mouth of the Amazon is Majaro island, a river island about the size of Switzerland. rainforests.mongabay.com /amazon   (740 words)

Amazon, river, Peru and Brazil. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 Of the Amazon’s more than 500 tributaries, the chief ones are the Negro, Japurá (Caquetá), Putumayo (I&;), and Napo, which enter from the north; and the Javari, Juru&;, Purús, Madeira, Tapaj&, and Xingú rivers, which enter from the south. The Amazon carries more water than any other river in the world. Geologically, the Amazon basin is a sediment-filled structural depression between crystalline highlands of Brazil and Guiana. www.bartleby.com /65/am/AmaznRiv.html   (998 words)

Amazon Basin Facts - National Zoo FONZ Geologically, the Amazon River and basin are contained by two large stable masses of Pre-Cambrian rock, the Guiana Shield or Highlands to the north, the Central Brazilian Shield or Plateau to the south; the Andes Mountains to the west; and it flows eastward to empty into the Atlantic Ocean. The length of the Amazon is measured from the source of the Ucayali river, which joins with the Maranon to eventually form the Amazon. The Amazon River, according to many accounts, was named by Spanish explorer Fransisco de Orellana in 1541. nationalzoo.si.edu /Animals/Amazonia/Facts/basinfacts.cfm   (576 words)

The Amazon in the Electronic Passport The Amazon River basin is a rainforest or jungle. The Amazon River basin is possibly the earth’s most fragile and necessary ecosystem. The rainforest of the Amazon River basin provides a valuable resource to the entire planet, but it is being destroyed. www.mrdowling.com /712-amazon.html   (392 words)

Amazon River; world's greatest river The Amazon is the greatest river in the world by so many measures; the volume of water it carries to the sea (approximately 20% of all the freshwater discharge into the oceans), the area of land that drains into it, and its length and width. The mouth of the Amazon River, where it meets the sea, is so wide and deep that ocean-going ships have navigated its waters and traveled as far inland as two-thirds the way up the entire length of the river. Whenever rain falls and lands anywhere in the river basin it all runs into the lowest place in the pan, which happens to be the Amazon River. www.extremescience.com /AmazonRiver.htm   (790 words)

Inia geoffrensis, Amazon River Dolphin at MarineBio.org An interesting characteristic of the Amazon river dolphin is the presence of stiff hairs on the beak, which are used as a sensory organ during the search for prey in muddy river bottoms. The Amazon river dolphins are known as the "pink dolphins" although they range in color depending on their age. Another interesting characteristic is that Amazon river dolphins are able to move their neck as the neck vertebrae are not fused together as in most dolphins. marinebio.org /species.asp?id=337   (913 words)

Amazon River Report Also called the Amazon River basin, the area surrounding the river is mostly rainforest. The Amazon dumps ten times more water into the Atlantic than the Mississippi dumps into the Gulf of Mexico. The Amazon is the second largest river in the world; only the Nile River is bigger. www.geocities.com /popfam/rforest.html   (3188 words)

Journey Into Amazonia -- Enter Amazonia The Amazon River is the lifeline of Amazonia, carrying an astounding 16 percent of all the river water in the world over its 6,500 miles. A fifth of all river water discharged into the world's oceans is conveyed through the Amazon, 10 times that of the Mississippi River. The Amazon's flow gradually reversed, now flowing from west to east, until roughly 10 million years ago, the river reached the Atlantic. www.pbs.org /journeyintoamazonia/enter.html   (272 words)

Amazon River Aquariums, Discus Fish, and Reverse Osmosis Water. Cardinal Tetras are natives of the Amazon River Rain Forest. Many fish from the Amazon River basin do better and are much more likely to breed in aquariums with water that is a mixture of tap water and water that has passed through a Reverse Osmosis (R/O) filter. More water flows into the ocean from the Amazon River than the combined output of the Mississippi, the Nile, and the Yangtze rivers. www.aquariumfish.net /pages/amazon_001.htm#top2   (1323 words)

Save the Amazon Rainforest Amazon River - Rainforest Animals Expeditions started to go up the Amazon River trying to find the Eldorado. The Amazon forest territory is a tropical rainforest that is located in the north side of the South American continent and is shared by 9 countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana and Guiana. The Amazon rainforest is the biggest forest in the world and is also the last big space covered with tropical plants and animals. www.amazon-rainforest.org   (696 words)

Rivers of Life: River Profile - The Amazon Flags of the Countries that the Amazon River flows through is the second longest river in the world, and the largest in terms of the size of its watershed, the number of tributaries, and the volume of water discharged into the sea. The Amazon and its tributaries flow through the countries of Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean 6, 437 kilometers (4,000 miles) from the Amazon's headwaters high in the Andes mountains of Peru. cgee.hamline.edu /rivers/Resources/river_profiles/Amazon.html   (342 words)

Pink Amazonian River Dolphin Of the five freshwater species of dolphins in the world, the pink Amazon River dolphin, Inia geoffrensis, or "bufeo colorado” as they are known in Peru and “botos" as they known in in Brazil, are considered to be the most intelligent. Intelligence: The intelligence of Amazon River dolphins has not been extensively tested. ISPTR believes that her work with the Peruvian Forest Police to protection both species of river dolphins, and empowering the local peoples of their rights and use of the law, there has been less illegal commercial fishing and logging in the area, thus saving the natural habitat of the land and aquatic life. www.isptr-pard.org /dolphin.html   (1105 words)

Discover Amazonia - Amazon Rain Forest - Brazil, Ecuador and Peru - Adventure Travel and Tours, Vacation Packages and Trips, Jungle Lodges, River Cruises, Backpacking, Birding, Rafting The Amazon Yarapa River Lodge is located on the Yarapa River, a pristine tributary of the Amazon River. Depending on river conditions the objective of the tour is to combine motorboat travel between selected destinations with extensive canoeing and trekking side trips. Located near the tiny community of Mondaña on Ecuador's Napo River, Yachana supports the projects of the Fundacion Funedesin, a non-profit foundation whose goal is to protect the rain forest by educating and empowering its people. www.discoveramazonia.com   (1692 words)

Amazon Travel - Amazon and Pantanal lodges & hotels, Amazon river cruises, Pantanal, peacock bass fishing, Manaus hotel, Manaus Brazil Located on the Acajatuba River bank, in the heart of Amazon, approximately 35 miles west of Manaus. This Amazonian jungle hotel is located 35 miles up river from Manaus (a thousand miles up the Amazon River) on the banks of the Ariaú River. Inaugurated in 1982 and is the pioneer for sustainable tourism development in the Brazilian Biomes of the Amazon Rainforest. www.amazontravel.com   (435 words)

WWF Global 200 Ecoregions -- Amazon River and Flooded Forests The Amazon is the second longest river in the world (after the Nile), stretching 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometers). Piramutaba catfish, one of the many large catfishes of the Amazon, is believed to migrate a distance of about 2,050 miles (3,300 km) from its nursery grounds in the Guianan-Amazon mangroves to its spawning grounds in the upper Amazon. These "flooded forests" in the Amazon region are the most extensive of this habitat type in the entire world. www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/g200/g147.html   (760 words)

WWF Amazon More than one third of all species in the world live in the Amazon, a giant tropical forest and river basin with an area that stretches more than 2.1 million square miles and is among the richest tropical forests in the world. The value of keeping the Amazon forests intact in terms of carbon storage, hydrology and rainfall, pharmaceuticals and fisheries far outweighs land-uses that are rapidly destroying large areas of the Amazon such as cattle ranching and illegal logging. WWF's innovative Amazon Region Protected Areas Program (ARPA) is designed to create a system of well-managed parks and other protected areas in Brazil encompassing some 193,000 square miles - an area surpassing in size the entire U.S. National Park System. www.worldwildlife.org /amazon   (239 words)

Amazon articles on Encyclopedia.com Bel&, the chief port of the vast Amazon River basin, handles the Amazonian produce (chiefly Brazil nuts, aluminum, cassava, and pepper) and has processing plants. In 1638 he was sent by the viceroy to accompany Teixeira on his return journey down the Amazon River. The hot, humid region is drained by the Amazon and its numerous tributaries. www.encyclopedia.com /articles/00408.html   (439 words)

Amazon River Dolphin The mouth of Amazon river dolphins is fairly straight with a slight upturn at the corners. Living throughout the Amazon and Orinoco River basins in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, and Venezuela, botos were historically safe from capture in much of their range because of superstitions of the native people. The biggest threat to all species of river dolphins now is land development by humans. www.tmmsn.org /mmgulf/inia_geoffrensis.html   (506 words)

The Amazon River The Amazon River flows through the center of the rainforest and is fed by 1,100 tributaries, seventeen of which are over 1,000 miles long. The Amazon is by far the largest river system in the world and over two-thirds of all the fresh water found on earth is in the Amazon basin's rivers, streams and tributaries. The Amazon is the widest river in the world. www.freshwateraquariumplants.com /amazonbiotope/amazonriverfacts.html   (1563 words)

Amazon cruises - rainforest tours - river boat cruise - The Amazon river and its tributaries are the largest fresh water system on the planet and home of the most biodiverse region. Amazon cruises & tours - rainforest ecosystem & river wildlife, the wilderness, nature and cultures of this tropical basin and its wild mysteries Amazon cruises and rainforest tours on board river boats that cruise the Amazon basin in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru www.amazoncruise.net   (609 words)

Greatest Places: Amazon: Rivers The Amazon River can be seen to change color along its length, with black and white waters sometimes flowing distinctly side by side until they merge many kilometers downstream. River Resource is a place where students can explore valuable river resources. The Mississippi River Towns Collaborative Internet Project the endeavor of 14 schools located along the Mississippi River from Sauk Rapids, MN to Baton Rouge, LA. www.greatestplaces.org /book_pages/amazon/rivers.html   (222 words)

WWF Amazon One of the Amazon's many rivers, Rio Pinquen meanders through Manu National Park. The immensity of the Amazon's challenge, like the scale of its landscape, requires a long-term conservation vision, backed by strong scientific expertise and the commitment of a global network of resources. But despite its natural richness, the Amazon ecosystem is fragile and in peril. www.worldwildlife.org /wildplaces/amazon/index.cfm   (156 words)

Amazon River running low on water - World - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper At 4,075 miles, the Amazon is the second-longest river in the world, after the Nile, but discharges far more water at its mouth than any other. LIMA, Peru -- The Amazon River, South America& largest, is at its lowest level in the 36 years since records have been kept near its source, scientists report. Low levels could cause economic havoc in regions of Peru that depend on the Amazon for shipping, by denying boats a navigable river as well as usable ports and harbors. washingtontimes.com /world/20051010-103117-6705r.htm   (541 words)

Amazon River - Wildlife The Amazon River is home to thousands of exotic species of life. Here are just a few of the exciting species that inhabit the Amazon River. Here is some general information about the habitat of the Amazon River. web.bryant.edu /~langlois/ecology/amazonwildlife.htm   (185 words)

BBC NEWS Americas Amazon area threatened by drought The Amazon - which is a lifeline for those who live in the river basin- is expected to continue dropping until November, he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press. The average low for the Amazon River is 17.6m (58.1ft). The dry spell is also affecting Peru, where the Amazon River at the river port of Iquitos has seen a record low. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/4318538.stm   (285 words)

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