Why how Amazon could become so big?

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The question is, how Amazon could become so big? The first reason relates to the proper location on the equator. The area around the "belt line" of the earth is, the warm tropical zone, where the rainfall reached more than 400 inches (1016cm) every year, or an average of more than one inch (3 centimeters) per day!

The northern region of South the U.S., where the Amazon river is located, has a basin-like landforms, and water catchment areas (drainage area) of the Amazon river is often referred to as the Amazon Basin (Amazon Basin). This basin size is almost twice the size of India, or about 40 per cent of the U.S..

At every time it rains anywhere in the watershed was, then all the water will run to the lowest place in the Amazon Basin, which coincidentally, is the Amazon River.

So because of a combination of high rainfall and slope of the land in the Amazon region is what causes the Amazon river became so big.

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Amazon River (Spanish: Río Amazonas, Portuguese: Rio Amazonas) is a river in South America which is the world's second longest river after the Nile River in Africa.

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Amazon River has the greatest total flow of any river, even this total flow, is still greater than the total flow of the Mississippi River, the Nile, and Yangtze are combined into one. Amazon also has the largest flow system of the entire river system. Although the Nile is the longest river in the world, but Amazon can be regarded as a river "strongest", judging by the amount of water flowing per second.