🏞️ Largest river by water volume

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The Amazon discharges more water than the next seven largest rivers combined — around one fifth of all river water reaching the ocean. Its estuary is so wide the sea turns fresh for tens of kilometres.

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This record belongs to our Rivers collection, where every rivers in the world is catalogued.

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