亚马孙河英文简介

亚马孙河英文简介

The Amazon River （总介）

the amazon river has a series of major river systems in peru and ecuador, some of which flow into the marañón and ucayali, others directly into the amazon proper. among others, these include the following rivers: morona, pastaza, nucuray, urituyacu, chambira, tigre, nanay, napo, and huallaga. 　　the most distant source of the amazon was firmly established in 1996,[3] 2001,[4] and 2007[5] as a glacial stream on a snowcapped 5,597 m (18,363 ft) peak called nevado mismi in the peruvian andes, roughly 160 km (99 mi) west of lake titicaca and 700 km (430 mi) southeast of lima. the waters from nevado mismi flow into the quebradas carhuasanta and apacheta, which flow into the río apurímac which is a tributary of the ucayali which later joins the marañón to form the amazon proper. (while this is the point at which most geographers place the beginning of the amazon proper, in brazil the river is known at this point as the solimões das águas.) soon thereafter the darkly colored waters of the rio negro meet the sandy colored rio solimões, and for over 6 km (4 mi) these waters run side by side without mixing.