Could the river Amazon ever run dry?

     Hello all!!! Welcome to Big Tech Bang. In this post we are gonna learn some facts about the river Amazon. Finally we will conclude with the answer for the question, Could the river Amazon ever run dry? 

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     The Amazon was initially known by the Europeans as the Marañón, and the Peruvian part of the river is still known by that name today. It later became known as Rio Amazonas in Spanish and Portuguese, and Amazon River in English. The Mantaro, along with the Apurimac River are the sources of the Amazon River.

     The minimum width of the river is 1 Km and the maximum width of the river is 100 Km. The minimum depth of the river is 20 m and the maximum depth of the river is 100m.

     The Amazon basin largest in the world, covers about 40% of South America, an area of approximately 7 Million Square Kilometres. It drains from West to East.

     The water flows in an average speed of 2.4 Kmph. The mouth of the river is 320 km long. Where the river meets the Sea, it discharges 770 Billion litres ie; 170 Billion gallons of water per hour. This is enough to fill almost two Million baths every second. If you were 100 km from the mouth of the Amazon, way out in the Atlantic Ocean, you could still scoop a pan of fresh Amazon water.

     There are about 2,500 species of fish in the Amazon - that's more than there are in the Atlantic Ocean.

     While the debate as to whether the Amazon or the Nile is the world's longest river has gone on for many years, the historic consensus of geographic authorities has been to regard the Amazon as the second longest river in the world, with the Nile being the longest.

     One of the most interesting fact is that there are no bridges across the entire width of the river. This is not because the river would be too wide to bridge; for most of its length, engineers could build a bridge across the river easily. For most of its course, the river flows through the Amazon Rainforest, where there are very few roads and cities. Most of the time, the crossing can be done by a ferry.

     Let's go for the question, Could the River Amazon ever run dry? The answer is no. The water that flows down the Amazon river in South America fell as snow or rain in a vast area known as a drainage basin. This drainage basin is the largest in the world and includes eight countries, covering an area three-quarters the size of the USA.

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