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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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The Amazon River dolphin, one of two freshwater dolphin species in the Amazon and Orinoco basins, uniquely adapts to explore seasonally flooded forest habitats.
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The drought has also weakened the vast Amazon River, affecting food supplies and the livelihoods of locals.
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For the past 10 years, my collaborator, César Peña, and I have been studying cassava gardens on the Amazon River and its myriad tributaries in Peru.
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The team examined dissolved organic matter from four tributaries of the Amazon River and two lakes in Sweden.
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Previous research has shown that the average atmospheric river transports more than twice the flow of the Amazon River.
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