Jungle River|looking awesome this weather 🌡️🌡️☁️☁️ traveling year 2023.

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Due to the tremendous amount of rainfall they receive, tropical rainforests have some of the largest rivers in the world, like the Amazon, Mekong, Orinoco, and Congo. These mega-rivers are fed by countless smaller tributaries, streams, and creeks. For example, the Amazon alone has some 1,100 tributaries, 17 of which are over 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) long!

The Amazon, which drains about 40 percent of the South American continent, is the world's largest river. It carries more than five times the water as the world's second largest river, the Congo, and twelve times that of the Mississippi. During the high water season, the Amazon river's mouth may be 300 miles wide and every day up to 7.2 million Olympic swimming pools' worth of water is discharged into the Atlantic Ocean.

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