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If size is important to you... The average discharge of water into the Atlantic Ocean by the Amazon is approximately 175,000 m3 per second, or between 1/5th and 1/6th of the total discharge into the oceans of all of the world's rivers!
The Amazon River basin is about 4,195 miles long, covering about 2,720,000 square miles in area, including its 15,000 tributaries and subtributaries (four of which are in excess of 1,000 miles long).It is the largest river basin in the world. The source of the Amazon is the lake, Lauricocha, in the Peruvian Andes.he width of the river ranges from one mile to 35 miles. The city at the heart of the basin, Manaus, has an altitude of only 144 feet. The average level of the basin is 300 feet above sea level. In the Amazon Basin, flooding often occurs between June and October.