The underground river

The starting point of the underground river is located in the heart of the Andes. This ow of fresh water could be responsible for the low salinity of the sea near the mouth of the Amazon.

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A team of Brazilian scientists has revealed the existence of a underground "stream" of mammoth proportions. Announced last week at an international congress in Rio geophysics, these results support the hypothesis that the Amazon forest will have two separate drainage systems.
The Amazon basin covers an area of 7,000,000 square kilometres. With twelve river basins within its territory, it has nearly 13% of freshwater on the planet. Canada contributes to 7% of the worlds fresh water.

VENEZUELA GUYANA COLOMBIA SURINAME

ECUADOR

TWO RIVERS

AMAZON RIVER
BRAZIL PERU BOLIVIA

This is the average amount of fresh water discharged daily to the Atlantic Ocean ... ... Equivalent to the water supply for New York for

17 billion m3

According to the research team of the National Observatory of the country, the Amazon region has two systems of water ow.

THE AMAZON

500 km

Nine years.
LENGTH : WIDTH :

CHILE

PARAGUAY

River drainage on the surface which forms the Amazon. Its pool of over 6 million km covers 5% of the Earth's surface and covers seven countries (Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana)

6,110 km
4 000 m
URUGUAY ARGENTINA

1 to 100 km

0.05 m/sec

FLOW SPEED :

133 m3/sec THE RIO HAMZA THE RIO HAMZA

FLOW:

Groundwater ow that would form a river called Hamza. Unlike a classical river, the water does not pass through a groove. It ows through the porous stones that form the basement.

6,000 km

LENGTH:

200 to 400 km

WIDTH:

10-8 to 10-9 m/sec. 3 900 m3/sec. Yenisei

SPEED FLOW :

FLOW:

LONGEST RIVERS IN THE WORLD

Sources: Radio-Canada, The Guardian, Al Jazeera

Saint-Laurent
3,058 km

Mississippi

(Asia) 5,539 km

(North America) 6,275 km

Yangtze The Nile

(Africa) 6,695 km (Asia) 6,300 km

The Amazon
(South America) 6,700 km