The Amazon is the largest river on Earth in volume of water while there is disagreement as to whether it is the largest in length. It flows through South America from the Andes to its mouth in the Atlantic Ocean.
544 / 5000
Αποτελέσματα μετάφρασης
The name “Amazon” was given by the Spanish conqueror Francisco de Orellana, who crossed the river in 1541-1542. Along the way he met tribes with women who fought and for this reason he gave him the name Amazon which comes from the name of the Amazons, the mythological female warrior people . At the time of the Conquest, near the banks of the Amazon and its tributaries, inhabited permanent, relatively dense populations, which applied intensive agricultural crops.The Amazon is well known for the vast jungle that surrounds it: The Amazon Rainforest is one of the largest forests on the planet and attracts the attention of scientists due to the rate of carbon uptake by plants into the soil and water of the forest per square meter. kilometer per year. However, the Amazon forest is largely threatened by illegal logging.
