Source of the Amazon River the Mantaro. Explorers and scholars have identified each of the three rivers as being the source of the Amazon under one of the three definitions. The Mantaro is the most distant upstream point; the Maraňón is the main stem of the Amazon; and the Apurímac is the most distant source with an uninterrupted flow of water. The Amazon River is the largest river in the world in terms of its discharge into the Atlantic Ocean and either the longest or second longest river in the world, contending with the Nile River for that honor. More than from its mouth, upstream
The Longest Journey (novel) are confirmed as well by his posthumous success as an artist. The phrase "the longest journey" appears in Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Epipsychidion": <poem> I never was attached to that great sect Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion, though it is in the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor souls with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one