Amazon River Delta

Xiaomei Nian; Marcelo Cancela Lisboa Cohen; Weiguo Zhang; Dailson José Bertassoli Júnior; Janice Muriel-Cunha; Henrique Oliveira Sawakuchi; André Oliveira Sawakuchi

doi:10.1007/978-981-97-7259-9_2

Amazon River Delta

Xiaomei Nian^*
, Marcelo Cancela Lisboa Cohen
, Weiguo Zhang
, Dailson José Bertassoli Júnior
, Janice Muriel-Cunha
, Henrique Oliveira Sawakuchi
, André Oliveira Sawakuchi

^*Corresponding author for this work

State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research (School of Marine Sciences)

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Abstract

The Amazon River basin (Fig. 1), with its headwater located in the Andes Mountains in Peru, covers approximately 40% of the Brazilian territory and 75% of the Peruvian territory, as well as significant parts of Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia. It represents the Earth’s largest drainage system (6.15â€‰×â€‰106 km2) and the second longest river (~6,437 km).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Delta Sustainability
Subtitle of host publication	A Report to the Mega-Delta Programme of the UN Ocean Decade
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	5-31
Number of pages	27
ISBN (Electronic)	9789819772599
ISBN (Print)	9789819772582
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7259-9_2
State	Published - 1 Jan 2024

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