Amazon River


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

Notes for Amazon River

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.

Notes for Amazon River

It was named after the Amazons, legendary female warriors.

Words Nearby Amazon River

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How to use Amazon River in a sentence

  • When they had crossed the Amazon River, some of the band stopped in places that seemed inviting.

    Bird Stories | Edith M. Patch
  • Much of it, including the greater part of the Amazon River basin, is unfit for the growth of food-stuffs.

    Commercial Geography | Jacques W. Redway
  • A chart of the Peruvian Amazon River and its affluents, drawn upon one sheet and on a scale of one inch for each 15 miles.

  • Scientists have found over two thousand species of fish in the Amazon River alone.

    Equatorial America | Maturin M. Ballou
  • There's one much deeper than that near the mouth of the Amazon River.