The Amazon river system starts in the highlands of Peru, makes it way, joined by many tributaries from Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Suriname, French Guiana and Guyana to flow through a vast area of norhtern Brazil to reach the Atlantic ocean.
"The largest of the world's rivers in terms of volume of water discharged into the sea is the Amazon. This mightiest of rivers forms a network of water channels that permeates nearly half the continent of South America. The main river is some 4,080 miles long, second only to the Nile in length. It is fed by more than 1,000 tributaries, including seven that are more than 1,000 miles long, and it drains more than half of Brazil, as well as parts of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. Its total drainage basin of some 2,722,000 square miles and encompasses about one-0third of South America,an area more than 10 times the size of Texas and nearly as large as the entire contiguous United States."
Amazon Basin.
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