What river moves the most water volume in the world?
What river moves the most water volume in the world? Coming a close second after the Nile as the world's longest river, the Amazon River sets the record in terms of the sheer volume of water that it carries – a mind-boggling average discharge of 219,000 m3/sec of water.
What is the thinnest river in the world?
Chinese environmental scientists recently identified the thinnest river in the world, only a dozen centimeters at its widest, on the Inner Mongolia Plateau in north China. As one of four branches entering Dalai Nur Lake in the Hexigten Grasslands nature reserve, this is the 17-km-long Haolai River.
Which country have 1,000 rivers?
Galicia occupies a particularly beautiful area of north-western Spain known as the land of the thousand rivers; this is thanks to the grid of waterways that flow down from its inland mountain ranges to its golden sandy beaches stretching all around the Bay of Biscay and along the Atlantic coastline.
What is the slowest river in the world?
The Everglades is the world's slowest-moving river. When rain fills Lake Okeechobee, in south-central Florida, the lake overflows into the 50-foot wide, 1.5 million acre water filtration system and flows about one meter an hour toward the Gulf of Mexico, at the southern tip of the Sunshine State.
Is Amazon or Nile longer?
The Encyclopedia Britannica gives the length of the Nile as 6,650 kilometers (4,132 miles), to 6,400 kilometers (3,977 miles) for the Amazon, measuring the latter from the headwaters of the Apurimac river in southern Peru.
Is Amazon or Nile river bigger?
Which river is the world's longest? More recently, Brazilian researchers have argued, the Amazon is more than 1,000 miles longer — and 87 miles longer than the Nile.
Which country has most rivers?
Bangladesh has the highest number of rivers (about 700) and is known as the 'land of rivers'. Some major Rivers of Bangladesh are: Brahmaputra, Ganges, Suma, Atrai, Raidak, Mahananda, Teesta, Karnaphuli, Meghna and Bangshi among others.
Which is the oldest river in the world?
The Finke River, which is also called Larapinta by the Aboriginal People, in central Australia is believed to be the oldest river in the world. While the Finke River's exact age is unknown, it is at least over 300 million years old and some of the oldest parts of the river may be over 340 million years old.