Running through the rainforest in the northern portion of South America is the Amazon river. Although it’s disputed if the Amazon is the longest river in the world, it does carry more water than ...

There are many indigenous communities living in the rainforest today. The Amazon River is the longest in South America, and the second longest river on Earth after the Nile in Africa. The source ...

For some regions of the world, such as the Congo Basin in Africa and parts of the Amazon Basin in South America, HydroSHEDS will provide the first high-resolution digital river maps produced for these ...