Amazon River

E16895

The Amazon River is one of the world's longest and largest rivers by discharge, flowing across northern South America through the Amazon rainforest and into the Atlantic Ocean.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Amazon River canonical 73
Amazon River system 19
Amazon River at Santarém 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geographical feature
river
basin Amazon Basin
basinCountry Bolivia
Brazil
Colombia
Ecuador
French Guiana
British Guiana
surface form: Guyana

Peru
Suriname
Venezuela
biome Amazon rainforest
cityOnRiver Manaus
surface form: Belém

Iquitos
Manaus
Santarém
continent South America
country Brazil
Colombia
Peru
dischargeRank largest river by discharge in the world
drainageAreaRank largest river basin in the world
ecosystem tropical rainforest
emptiesInto Atlantic Ocean
flowsDirection generally west-to-east
flowsThrough Amazon rainforest
hasDelta Amazon River mouth
surface form: Amazon River delta
knownFor high biodiversity
massive freshwater discharge
lengthRank one of the longest rivers in the world
locatedIn Guianas
surface form: Northern South America
majorTributary Japurá River
Japurá River
surface form: Juruá River

Madeira River
Marañón River
Purus River
Rio Negro
Tapajós River
Ucayali River
Xingu River
mouth Atlantic Ocean
partOf global hydrological cycle
region Amazon Basin
surface form: Amazonia
sourceCountry Peru
sourceLocation Arequipa Region
Ucayali–Marañón confluence
sourceRegion Andes
surface form: Andes Mountains
waterType freshwater

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (93)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Marañón River tributaryOf Amazon River
Marañón River isHeadwaterOf Amazon River
Maynas Province containsRiver Amazon River
Frank Wolff associatedWith Amazon River
Beni River partOf Amazon River
this entity surface form: Amazon River system
Mamoré River majorTributaryOf Amazon River
Mamoré River watercourseSystem Amazon River
Pará hasRiver Amazon River
Amapá hasRiver Amazon River
Amapá borderRiver Amazon River
Acre River partOf Amazon River
this entity surface form: Amazon River system
Francisco de Orellana deathPlace Amazon River
Francisco de Orellana riverExplored Amazon River
Belém do Pará locatedNear Amazon River
Itaya River tributaryOf Amazon River
Itaya River hasMouthIn Amazon River
Nanay River mouthOf Amazon River
Nanay River tributaryOf Amazon River
Negro River basin majorSubBasinOf Amazon River
this entity surface form: Amazon River system
Negro River basin emptiesInto Amazon River
Leticia locatedOnRiver Amazon River
Tikuna people usesRiver Amazon River
Morona River hasHydrologicalSystem Amazon River
this entity surface form: Amazon River system
Caquetá River mouth Amazon River
Caquetá River partOf Amazon River
this entity surface form: Amazon River system
Caquetá River tributaryOf Amazon River
Alexander Hamilton Rice Jr. studied Amazon River
this entity surface form: Amazon River system
Guainía River hydrologicalSystem Amazon River
this entity surface form: Amazon River system
Putumayo River mouth Amazon River
Putumayo River tributaryOf Amazon River
Putumayo River isPartOf Amazon River
this entity surface form: Amazon River system
Amazon–Orinoco watershed region connects Amazon River
this entity surface form: Amazon River system
Tigre River tributaryOf Amazon River
Tigre River hydrologicalSystem Amazon River
this entity surface form: Amazon River system
Amazonas traversedBy Amazon River
Juruena River riverSystem Amazon River
this entity surface form: Amazon River system
Chinchipe River majorTributaryOf Amazon River
this entity surface form: Amazon River system