Q:- Which is the largest river in the world?
-> Amazon river...
Amazon is the largest river in the world because it contains more water than any other river on earth. It contains about 25% of all the water (excepitng sea water) that run's off the earth surface.The Amazon rises high up in the Andes mountains in Peru, flows across a length of 6448 km from northern Brazil to the Atlantic ocean and on the way it is fed by about 15,000 tributaries and sub-tributaries.
The Amazon begins with snowbound lakes and brooks, and from the confluence of two major headstreams, the Maranon and Ucayali, the river is called Amazon.
Amazon was first discovered by Vicente Yanez pinzon in 1499, a Spanish sea captain who was a part of Columbus crew in his great voyage. As pizon was sailing out of sight off the coast, he discovered that he was voyaging through a fresh water. He moved to shorewards to investigate and then anchored in the mouth of vast river.
One of the most intriguing things about the amazon is that its tributaries are of different colors. The true source of main river is 5,240 meters above sea level in Peruvian Andes, and this starts off as white or dirty yellow. Many of its other tributaries which originate in northwest Brazil and Venezuela are apparently black in color. In fact these rivers are very clear and dark red in color because they flow of ancient bare rock formations and laden with iron.
The Amazon begins with snowbound lakes and brooks, and from the confluence of two major headstreams, the Maranon and Ucayali, the river is called Amazon.
Amazon was first discovered by Vicente Yanez pinzon in 1499, a Spanish sea captain who was a part of Columbus crew in his great voyage. As pizon was sailing out of sight off the coast, he discovered that he was voyaging through a fresh water. He moved to shorewards to investigate and then anchored in the mouth of vast river.
One of the most intriguing things about the amazon is that its tributaries are of different colors. The true source of main river is 5,240 meters above sea level in Peruvian Andes, and this starts off as white or dirty yellow. Many of its other tributaries which originate in northwest Brazil and Venezuela are apparently black in color. In fact these rivers are very clear and dark red in color because they flow of ancient bare rock formations and laden with iron.
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