LAND OF THE LEGEND
Learn more about the river and territory that surround the legend of the lost civilization:
- The total length of the Amazon River is about 4,000 miles?the distance from New York City to Rome.
- It is estimated that the Amazon discharges between nine million and 32 million gallons of water per second.
- The Amazon deposits a daily average of three million tons of sediment near its mouth.
- The Atlantic Ocean changes color 200 miles away from the Amazon because of the outpouring of water and sediment from the mouth of the river.
- The width of the river ranges from as narrow as one mile to as wide as 35 miles.
- It is suspected that the Amazon rain forest could be as old as 100 million years.
- 2,500 fish species exist in the Amazon basin?more than what is found in the entire Atlantic Ocean.
- Night is winter in the Amazon because greater temperature differences occur between day and night than between opposite seasons.
- The warm and humid climate yields an average temperature of 79 degrees.
- Yearly rainfall averages 80 inches.
