Amazon River

River in South America with headwaters in northern Peru. It flows across northern Brazil to the Atlantic Ocean.

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It was named after the Amazons, legendary female warriors.

The world's second-longest river, after the Nile, it flows nearly four thousand miles and carries more water than any other river in the world.

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A Peruvian navy vessel has collided with an oil platform in the Amazon River, killing at least two people and leaving one missing.

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The Amazon River dolphin, one of two freshwater dolphin species in the Amazon and Orinoco basins, uniquely adapts to explore seasonally flooded forest habitats.

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The drought has also weakened the vast Amazon River, affecting food supplies and the livelihoods of locals.

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For the past 10 years, my collaborator, César Peña, and I have been studying cassava gardens on the Amazon River and its myriad tributaries in Peru.

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The team examined dissolved organic matter from four tributaries of the Amazon River and two lakes in Sweden.

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Amazon parrot Amazons

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