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In terms of volume of outflow, the Amazon is bigger by far than any other river in the world.

Nile River

source – Tributaries of Lake Victoria, Africa

Outflow – Mediterranean Sea

Length – 4,180 miles / 6,690km

Amazon River

Source – Glacier-fed lakes, Peru

Outflow – Atlantic Ocean

Length – 3,912 miles / 6,296km

Widest River – The Amazon is the widest river in the world. Many kilometers from its mouth it can be as wide as 11 kilometers, and 40 kilometers in the wet season; at the place where it meets the Atlantic, it is as much as 325 kilometers.

Yeah, the Colorado River has history all over that Nile thingy they have over there in Egypt and Africa. Pharoahs? Sphinx? Pyramids? That stuff’s all over rated anyway as far as history.

Interesting bit of Amazon River trivia – the MOUTH of the Amazon is WIDER than the Hudson River is long.