Does the Amazon touch the ocean?
Does the Amazon touch the ocean? The Amazon River is located in the northern portion of South America, flowing from west to east. The river system originates in the Andes Mountains of Peru and travels through Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Brazil before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean.
Do dolphins swim in the Amazon river?
The Amazon river dolphin, also known as the pink river dolphin or boto, lives only in freshwater. It is found throughout much of the Amazon and Orinoco river basins in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela.
How deep is the Amazon?
The Amazon River in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the disputed longest river system in the world in comparison to the Nile.
Is it OK to swim in the Amazon?
No, it is generally not a good idea to swim in the Amazon river due to strong currents more so than parasites. The thing you are talking about is probably the tiny little fish, the candiru, that can swim up a stream of urine.
Is Amazon a river or ocean?
Even though the Amazon River and the ocean seem very different—the river is freshwater while the ocean is salty, the ocean is vast and deep compared to the Amazon—they are closely connected. The Amazon River carries rainwater that lands in the Amazon rainforest, covering some 2.1 million square miles, into the ocean.
Has anyone swam in the Amazon river?
On Sunday, April 8, 200 7, 52-year old Martin Strel completed the first-ever swim of the 3,274-mile-long Amazon River.