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WORLD’S

LARGEST

RIVER

AT A GLANCE

• LENGTH More than 4,000 miles
(6,400 km)
• WIDTH Main channel up to MAJESTIC RIVER
25 miles (40 km) wide Dense tropical rainforest
surrounds the rivers of the
• AVERAGE FLOW 7,381,000 cubic ft Amazon basin. Each rainy
(209,000 cubic m) per second season at least 93,000 sq miles
• SOURCE Peruvian Andes (240,000 sq km) of the forest is
flooded as the river level rises
by more than 30 ft (9 m).

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