RIO DE JANEIRO: What's the longest river in the world, the Nile or the Amazon? The question has fueled a heated debate for years. Now, an expedition into the South American jungle aims to settle it for good. Using boats run on solar energy and pedal power, an international team of explorers plans to set of
RIO DE JANEIRO: What's the longest river in the world, the Nile or the Amazon? The question has fueled a heated debate for years. Now, an expedition into the South American jungle aims to settle it for good.
The Amazon, the pulsing aorta of the world's biggest rainforest, has long been recognized as the largest river in the world by volume, discharging more than the Nile, the Yangtze and the Mississippi combined. In 2014, US neuroscientist and explorer James"Rocky" Contos developed an alternative theory, putting the source of the Amazon farther away, at the Mantaro river in northern Peru.
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