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[edit] Conflicting Facts
The length of the Amazon is listed as 0km in the box, between 6,259 and 6,800km in the section labeled "dispute regarding length", and as 6992km in the list of longest rivers in the system. The section labeled "major tributaries" claims that there are 17 rivers over 1500 km in length, but the list of longest rivers includes only 12 (13 if you count the amazon). In the list of longest rivers, the Tapajos is listed twice with wildly different lengths. These sort of conflicts make the entire factual veracity of the page suspect, IMO. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.119.18.244 (talk) 17:09, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Photos?
There is a severe dearth of photos of the actual river. There's an extreme over-reliance upon satellite imagery, maps, and photos of things only incidental to the river itself. —Notyourbroom (talk) 16:32, 2 February 2010 (UTC)Kennedy Lebogang Matshedisho Thagane
[edit] The Name
Does anyone know why the river has the same name as the legendary female warriors of Greek mythology? Is it just a co-incidence? It the name of South American origin or did the Europeans give it this name? Just curious. SmokeyTheCat 09:58, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
- Yes I do, de.wp has a section on the name that is appropriately sourced. In fact i thought i had included that ino here as well, but either i forgot or it got (accidentally) deleted. I can add a chapter similar to the one in de.wp. Basically there 2 main explanation. One is that Orellana encountered tribes with women warriors and hence used the Greek myth as a name and the other is derivation from a similar sounding indian term for the river or river related phenomenons.--Kmhkmh (talk) 15:46, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Origins
The current description is a bit confusing and incomplete. Afaik the correct description is:
- headwaters of the apurimac ->apurimac-> Tambo->ene->ucayali->solimoes/amazon (after the confluence of maranon and ucayali)-> amazon proper (after confluence with the negro)-> atlantic
--Kmhkmh (talk) 12:35, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Hardly a "short" distance
Regarding the beginning of the actual Amazon, the article says:
While the Ucayali–Marañón confluence is the point at which most geographers place the beginning of the Amazon proper, in Brazil the river is known at this point as the Solimões das Águas. Shortly downriver from that confluence the darkly colored waters of the Rio Negro meet the sandy colored Rio Solimões,
"Shortly downriver"? A map of Brazil shows at more than a thousand kilometers between the Ucayali–Marañón confluence and that of the Rio Negro with the Amazon (or Rio Solimões). And that's as the crow flies; follow the actual course, and it would be considerably more. That's hardly "shortly." 140.147.236.195 (talk) 16:04, 27 July 2011 (UTC)Stephen Kosciesza
- I did a quick fix replacing shortly by further. However maybe the whole section should be reworded and also the issue raised in the section above still neds to be addressed.--Kmhkmh (talk) 20:25, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Big underground river found beneath Amazon
There are reports from Brazil about a 6,000 km-long river flowing under the Amazon River. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-08/26/underground-river-amazon
Discovered "by studying temperature variations at inactive oil wells drilled in the 70s and 80s."
DonL (talk) 08:16, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
