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Amazon River
- River in South America with headwaters in northern Peru . It flows across northern Brazil to the Atlantic Ocean .
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It was named after the Amazons , legendary female warriors.
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.
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When they had crossed the Amazon River, some of the band stopped in places that seemed inviting.
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Much of it, including the greater part of the Amazon River basin, is unfit for the growth of food-stuffs.
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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.
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Scientists have found over two thousand species of fish in the Amazon River alone.
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There's one much deeper than that near the mouth of the Amazon River.
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