30 Strange Facts about Amazon River and Interesting Geography Facts

After studying the facts about the Amazon River and Amazon Rain forest, you will get to know how crazy the world was formed.

There are no words to express the beauty of the Amazon River, Its limitations, and its specialty. It is not even comparable with all combined rivers from the world.

Let us have look at some of the facts that you might have no idea about.

Where does the Amazon River Name come from?

• The name of the river was given by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Orellana (Francisco Orellana), whose squad allegedly saw a tribe of legendary warriors and joined them in battle. At first, he wanted to name the river after himself, but after the battle, he decided on the name “Amazon”, comparing the brave female warriors with the Amazons from Greek mythology.

How many countries does the Amazon river Pass?

• Amazon River is located in South America and it’s mixed with the Atlantic Ocean.

•  It runs through Guyana, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru.

Arapaima Fish in Amazon River :

• In the waters of the Amazon, there is a fish called arapaima weighing about 136 kilograms. It is covered with strong relief scales, the multi-layered composite structure of which allows it to survive in the environment of piranhas.

Anaconda Snake in Amazon River :

• Anaconda snake is found in shallow waters in the Amazon Basin.

• Anaconda found from Amazon River with length over 40 feet named green anaconda their weigh amazingly reach up to 600kg, which is making them as worlds largest anacondas.

Shhh!! Piranha is in the Amazon River

• Yes, The piranha, one of the most ferocious fish in the world which grow in the Amazon River.

• Piranha length between 5 to 10 inches on average, some piranhas grow up to 25 inches.

6 Unknown Fun Facts about Amazon River

• The mouth of the Amazon River is so wide that its waters, flowing into the Atlantic Ocean, wash the shores of the island of Marajo (Marajo). Cool, huh? The size of this island is approximately equal to the territory of Switzerland.

• Once the Amazon flowed into the Pacific Ocean, but then changed its direction in the opposite direction.

• It is the second-largest river in the world after the Nile River. It is also the widest river in the world.

• Streams that begin in the Andes Mountains are the starting sources for the Amazon River.

• The Amazon River taken different routes from it began to carry water. Scientists have determined that the Amazon River even flowed west at one time or more, into the Pacific Ocean.

• From the Amazon River, so much freshwater flows into the Atlantic that it desalinates the salty waters of the ocean for almost 160 kilometers. This vast area is called the Fresh Sea.

5 Interesting Facts about Amazon River

• There are no bridges that cross the Amazon, mostly because there is no need, the majority of the Amazon River runs through rain forests rather than roads or cities.
• The interesting fact is bull sharks are found in the Amazon River.
• During flood seasons, the Amazon River can be much, much wider; many reports saying that it is more than 20 miles wide (32 km) in certain places.
• In terms of water flow, the Amazon River is larger than the next 8 largest rivers on the planet combined.
• There are over 3000 known species of fish that live in the Amazon River, with more constantly being discovered.

20% of all Freshwater from the entire world is discharged by the Amazon River.

6 Fun Facts about amazon river for Kids

• The greater volume of water consumed by the river – the Amazon River.
• The Amazon River is home to over 2,000 different species of fish, this incredible diversity of fish species is found in no place on earth.
• The total length of the Amazon River measured is at least 4,000 miles (6,400 km).
• Averaging a discharge of about 209,000 cubic meters per second.
• The Amazon River can be as much as one to six miles wide! 
• The daily flow of the Amazon is equal to the supply of water that will be enough to use the entire city of New York for 12 years.

Slovenian ultra-long-distance swimmer Martin Strel is the first person to swim the Amazon, swimming 80 kilometers every day. It took him just over two months to do it.