The source is 5597 meters above sea level.
The average flow is 2 1.9 million m? /s
The drainage area is 69 1.5 million km?
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Atlantic estuary
Amazon River (officially translated as Amazon River) is located in South America. Although its length is the second in the world, its flow is the largest in the world, which is greater than the sum of the flows of the Nile, Mississippi and Yangtze rivers, and its drainage area is also the largest in the world.
The amount of water discharged from the Amazon River into the Atlantic Ocean reaches 1.84 million cubic meters per second, which is equivalent to one fifth of the total amount of fresh water discharged into the ocean by all rivers in the world. From the mouth of the Amazon River to the coast where the naked eye can't see it, the water in the ocean is not salty, and the salt content of seawater beyond 1.50 km is quite low.
The main channel of the Amazon River is 1.5 to 12 kilometers wide, and there are 3700 kilometers of channels from the estuary to the inland river. Ships can go straight to Iquitos, Peru. Smaller ships can continue to sail 780 kilometers to Cape Coward, and even smaller ships can continue to rise.
The Amazon River basin covers an area of 6910.5 million square kilometers, equivalent to 40% of the total area of South America, extending from 5 degrees north latitude to 20 degrees south latitude. Its source is in the Andean Plateau, only a short distance from the Pacific Ocean, and it enters the Atlantic Ocean near the equator through Peru and Brazil.