Into the Depths of the Amazon

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The River - The Amazon Continues

As the river meanders away from the Andes, it looses some of the sediment-rich water, dropping it on the “vareza”, the Amazonian Flood Plain. It is here that the rich nutrients from the Andes range go into the ground to create immensely fertile soil, soil more fertile than in any other area of the Amazon. After the long meanders by the “vareza”, the Amazon finally empties out to the Atlantic with a mouth over 205 miles across. It pushes fresh water out into the sea for 155 miles, going around a island in the center of the mouth named Marajo which is about the size of Switzerland. With the speed of 10 million liters per second, the Amazon once again proves its might.

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