What is the difference between Amazon River and Amazon basin?
What is the difference between Amazon River and Amazon basin? A river basin is the area of land covered by a river and its tributaries. The region drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries is known as the Amazon River Basin. Because it is home to the tropical rainforest, the Amazon is extraordinarily biodiverse. The Amazon River is home to 10% of the world's biodiversity.
What lives in the Amazon river?
The Amazon is one of Earth's last refuges for jaguars, harpy eagles, and pink river dolphins, and it is home to sloths, black spider monkeys, and poison dart frogs. It contains one in 10 known species on Earth, 40,000 plant species, 3,000 freshwater fish species, and more than 370 types of reptiles.
Can you swim in the Amazon river?
Can you swim in the Amazon River? 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.
Where is the deepest river in the world?
The Congo is the deepest river in the world. Its headwaters are in the north-east of Zambia, between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Nyasa (Malawi), 1760 metres above sea level; it flows into the Atlantic Ocean.