Monday 2 June 2014
The Amazon River
in South America is the largest river by discharge of water in the world,
averaging a discharge of about 209,000 cubic meters per second greater than the next seven largest
independent rivers combined. It is also generally regarded as the second
longest river in the world, has the largest drainage basin in the world, about
7,050,000 square kilometres and accounts for approximately one-fifth of the
world's total river flow. The river would have the biggest drainage basin in
the world even just counting Brazil, which it enters with only one-fifth of the
volume that will finally be discharged into the Atlantic (which would make it
largest in the world in terms of volume at that point already). Source
