Amazon River Explained in under 3 Minutes
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The Amazon river is the second longest river in the world, and it has so many facets to it. In this video, we will briefly look at a few of these interesting geographical and historical features related to the Amazon River. Feel free to subscribe if you enjoy videos like this one.
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Interesting video! Note: in 1:41 it's not Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, it's Barcelona, Spain. It can be relieved just because you said "Spain and Portugal" right before the image, but I think it was not the purpose.
Not 1 bridge, I find that absolutely amazing.
Not so much for the people living here.
There’s only one place where it was financially feasible to have a bridge connecting the north and south margins of the Amazon River basin. There is however one bridge that crosses its biggest affluent, the Rio Negro (Black River): it connects the 2 million inhabitants of Manaus (capital of the state of Amazonas) to the southern parts of Brazil. Technically the video is not wrong, since the bridge crosses the Rio Negro just before it meets with the Amazon River (10 miles ahead). The bridge would be wide enough to cross the Amazon River if the engineers decided to place it a few kilometers ahead, there just wasn’t anyone living in the opposite side of Manaus downstream.
The lack of bridges in the Amazon basin is not all that surprising. For most of its length, the Amazon is quite broad; bridge building would be enormously difficult and expensive, provided it is even possible. Also, roads and railways outside of the few cities in the Amazon basin are almost nonexistent. As the video pointed out, surface transportation in the basin is almost 100% by rivers.
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Excellent video!!! Thank you!
Congratulations for your job! Let me ask you something, please insert portuguese subtiltles, i used your video on my EFL classes and some students needed this kind of feature. Again, thank for your work.
Hi, it is great to hear that my video is helping you and your students to learn English! I added Portuguese captions which are translated using Google Translate. I hope this is good enough and helps your students understand the videos better. Feel free to reach out to me if you would like any of the other videos translated as well :)
@@FactSpark thanks a lot! It'll help them !
Should pay him for using his work !
Very nice information
Do not forget that it just dwarfs all other rivers with the discharge
the first 10 seconds of the video is like: Amazon River, Amazon River, Amazon River
Man i wanted this video longer 😂❤️
Underrated video
No one asked
There is however one bridge that crosses its biggest affluent, the Rio Negro (Black River): it connects the 2 million inhabitants of Manaus (capital of the state of Amazonas) to the southern parts of Brazil. Technically the video is correct, since the bridge crosses the Rio Negro just before it meets with the Amazon River (10 miles ahead). The 3km bridge (~2miles) is wide enough to cross the Amazon River (~2km/1.4miles) after the rivers meet, there just wasn’t anyone living in the opposite side of Manaus downstream, so it didn’t make sense economically. My point is, while the Amazon River is very wide, having a bridge crossing it was not unfeasible, at least not at this point.
Wow.....
Thanks xx
Nice
Not The Spanish Who discovered South America were the Portuguese.
Thank you very much bro
Regarding hydroenergy, despite the fact that China's situation was a bad example, lessons were learned, and a novel project for Amazon could be designed and evaluated, before building it, of course.
There is no significant difference in terrain height throughout the Amazon river resulting in no potential energy difference in the water. So there are technical difficulties and it is not cost effective given lack of big city or facility transport the produced electricity if there is any.
Can you please explain the Parana river? 🙏
Safe levels of water warehouses are being managed well in all places. Pls
Thanks for sharing this video. It is my opinion that it is possible to bring sustainable development to the Amazon, with small bridges to allow small roads to connect cities. Not everyone likes to commute only by boat, and that brings disadvantages to those people. In addition to that, it is more difficult for the federal policy to act when they can only move through boats. The forest wouldn't be impacted or deforested. A sustainable project can be built towards that goal.
Thanks for the great videos. It's "tributary", not "tributory". Like the sound in "air".
Research suggests that the Amazon is actually the longest river in the world, beating the Nile as well & is the world's largest river by discharge volume.
The Trade Icon, is that a Philippine Peso coin?
1:19, lol that is definitely a Php coin
The coin is the pesos of the Philippines 🤣
the nile river is even longer
Spanish didnt discover. They went to sa for the first time
Using the term river for the Amazon seems inadequate. It is in its own class and needs its own category. It has 5 times the discharge volume of the world's next highest volume river and has a vast watershed and its estuary at its mouth is 330 km wide. There needs to be a special term created by geographers for the Amazon alone. The Amazon Garganturiver?
Anyone who thinks we are overpopulated is wrong. We just under produce resources for coming bigger generations . We produce and build for current demands and we dont make it easy to expand production. The earth could support 20 billion people easily , with no problems
You talking garbage the worlds overpopulated now with all deforestation that's going on overfishing of the oceans loss of habitat for other species you must be a economist or a real estate agent
Dev decker your some type of idiot
Spanish discovered Brazil? OMG! WTF!!???
A parte amazônica sim. Portugal somente chegou no que hoje seria a Amazônia brasileira nos anos de 1630, mais de 100 anos depois de descobrir a costa brasileira. Enquanto isso isso, os espanhóis já tinham descoberto toda a parte norte e oeste da América do Sul, inclusive explorado todo o curso do rio amazonas que assim foi nomeado por um espanhol, Francisco de Orellana.
So…. There were indigenous peoples living in the area for thousands of years and yet, the Great Europeans “discovered” it. Ok, got it. 👌 😂
Amazon is largest river of the world...is it correct?????
The river Nile in Africa is considered the longest river by many, but since the Amazon has such a far spanning network of tributaries and paralel rivers, it covers a way larger area and is considered "the largest"
The Nile in Egypt is longer, but the Amazon is slightly wider
AMAZON RIVER دنیا کا بلحاظ وسعت سے بڑا دریا ہے ۔۔۔² Amazon river دنیا کا دوسرا لمبا دریا ہے۔۔۔۔کیا یہ معلومات درست ہیں؟؟؟
Yea we’re gonna need to stop using the word “discovered” when it comes to the colonisers
ok -_-
God is God. There is no one on earth who can create River and its embodiments like this. Glory Honor and Adoration unto His Holy Name. Amen.
Literally no one asked
God is not good otherwise babies wouldn’t die of AIDS.
Lmao god isnt real Calm down
I know it may be hard for you to comprehend but there is no one on earth who can create what NATURE has created. No gods, no almighty beings. Just hundreds of millions of years of natural processes
Where do you buy your material? Asking for a friend...
I can confirm by my experience that God of the Bible ie Jesus Christ never forces himself on anyone
enforcing Christianity? I hate misguided posts like this. Please read accounts of Our Lady of Guadalupe for better knowledge of improvements for the indigenous people. God will always act for the betterment of His creation.
"The first and last Christian died on a cross"
That was awful