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 July 2002, global sales of the game had reached 450,000 copies, according to Funcom. A new shipment was released in North America that month, as its earlier printing had sold out. Ragnar Tørnquist noted in 2003 that he was "very satisfied" with "The Longest Journey"s sales in North America, and explained, "There was such strong word of mouth, and so many great reviews, that we managed to get "TLJ" into most big stores and out to the players regardless of marketing." In May 2003, Marek Bronstring of Adventure Gamers wrote that "The Longest Journey" "sold half a million copies worldwide