Amazon & Amazonia
"Amazon" generally refers to the Amazon River, the largest river in the world by volume of water exceeded in length only by the Nile River of Africa. Length of the Amazon River including the Maranon River which rises about 100 miles from the Pacific Ocean and is considered the Amazon proper, 4000 miles; length including the Ucayali and its headstream, the Apurimac, 3915 miles.
"Amazonia" describes the regions about the Amazon River in South America including the greater part of Brazil and parts of bordering countries, especially Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia; so called because early Spanish explorers thought they saw female warriors on the banks of the river.
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