the Amazon River. The water flowing from these headwaters supplies much of the Amazon Basin, sustaining the world’s largest and most biodiverse rainforest. The filmmakers follow two Indigenous ...
More information: Zhaowei Ding et al, Sustainable land and irrigation management to limit loss of hydropower in the Andes-Amazon headwaters, Communications Earth & Environment (2024). DOI ...
The Encyclopaedia Britannica gives the length of the Nile as 6,650km, to 6,400km for the Amazon, measuring the latter from the headwaters of the Apurimac river in southern Peru. In 2014 ...