Why the Amazon River?
The Amazon has been described as is the greatest river in the world. Rich in history and surrounded by a wealth of mystery. Scientists, even today, have discovered only a small percentage of the millions of species of plants and animals that live in the rain forests in the Amazon River basin. Located in South America right at the equator, the Amazon River drains the entire northern half of the South American continent. All the tropical rains that deluge the great rainforests of Amazonia are carried to the ocean through the thousands of tributaries which feed the Amazon. More water flows into the ocean from the Amazon River than the combined output of the Mississippi, the Nile, and the Yangtze rivers. Of all the river waters flowing into the worlds oceans, one fifth of that water comes from the Amazon. The advertisement, shown below, links to this advertiser’s web site. An Amazing Discovery Seven years after the Spanish Explorer, Vincente Pinzon, had sailed with Christopher Columbus, Pi
