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The Timeless Amazon

The Timeless Amazon
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 Dinesh
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On February 12, 1542, Francisco Orellana and his fleet noticed a truly great river coming in to meet them from the south bank. The incoming flow from the right impressed and even frightened the men, for it was far bigger than the river they were on, bigger than anything they ever seen.

Francisco Orellana had reached the confluence of the Napo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napo_River and the Maranon, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara%C3%B1%C3%B3n_River the origin of the Amazon River proper. Though he certainly could not know it at the time, Orellana and his crew were the first Europeans to experience the world’s largest river. The Spaniards grew awed by the stupefying scope and scale of the river, a grander and more inspiring body of fresh water then any of them had ever encountered, or ever would again. “It was so wide from bank to bank, they recounted “that it seemed as though we were navigating launched out upon a vast sea.:

Indeed the Amazon River en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_River is so immense that superlatives fall short of doing it justice. More than 4,500 miles long, the Amazon discharges one-fifth of all the freshwater that flows into the earth’s oceans, about sixty times the amount contributed by the Nile, its closest river in size. Snaking across the entire continent in a languid west-to-east flow, the immense river drainage is fed by some five hundred tributaries, a number of which themselves, were they located anywhere else in the world, would be the largest river on their continent. In places the Amazon sprawls is remarkably fifty miles wide; it can vary in depth with floodwaters or tides by as much as fifty feet; and, near its terminus at the Atlantic, it contains an island the size of Switzerland. ` Page 78
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