River

Amazonas

The Amazon is Earth’s largest river, winding through a floodplain more than 32 kilometres wide, still filling with sediment carried down from the distant Andes.

Source: science.nasa.gov

When sea level fell during the last Ice Age, the river cut a canyon tens of metres deep. Its bed has been rising ever since as sediment refills it.

Source: science.nasa.gov

Where it is

On the Atlas Quest map, the Amazonas label sits at 3.2° S, 63.6° W, in the Southern and Western Hemispheres.

Also labelled Amazon.

Coordinates, names: Natural Earth, public domain.

Nearby places

The closest other places with pages here, measured between map label points:

• Amazon Basin — about 460 km south-east
• Desierto de Atacama — about 2,300 km south
• Sargasso Sea — about 3,500 km north
• North Atlantic Ocean — about 4,600 km north-east

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