Scientists claim Amazon River is world's longest

The Amazon River crosses through four South American countries and is considered to be the world’s largest river based on water volume. However, a study conducted by a group of Brazilian scientists claims that the Amazon is the world’s longest river, not the Nile.

Scientists from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics concluded that the start of the Amazon is high atop southern Peru’s Mismi Mountain. Thus, it would add nearly 200 miles to the length of the river and make it 65 miles longer than Egypt’s Nile River.

Sources- Wikipedia, FOX News, Telgraph.co.uk

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