Description: Amazon river, Río Amazonas - Worlds largest river! Try this extensive tour of more than 6400 kilometers (3977 miles) with more than 400 placemarks (an average of more than one placemark every 16 kilometers, 10 miles) taking you on a flight over the landscape in Peru and Brazil from the Amazon river spring as a glacial stream on a snowcapped 5597 meter (18363 feet) peak called Nevado Mismi in the Peruvian Andes to the estuary, mouth of the river, at Marajó island, some 330 kilometres (207 miles) wide. The Amazon river pours 219000 cubic meters (57 million gallon, 917 million cups) of water every second into the Atlantic ocean! An amount larger than all other major (top 10) rivers combined!! The Amazon river is the worlds biggest river! Also a series of overlays are included. Enable an overlay to see a specific map or information on and around the Amazon river. The Amazon-river-tour-Overlays folder offers a series of image overlays containing various information on the Amazon river and the surrounding Amazonas rain forest. About the GE tour: Although I never (yet) have been in South America, the Amazonas has always been a source of facination for it's wildlife, rivers and wastness. I may come to Amazonas some day but on a winter day in january 2008 I concluded that I'll most likely NEVER (guess not many) will travel the more than 6400 kilometers from the spring to the mouth of the river. So I decided I could use Google Earth to give myself (and you, maybe) a guided tour.
Enjoy. Tour creator: Tom Kjeldsen, created january 2008. Recommended to be viewed as a 'Play tour' in Google Earth with terrain feature enabled. |
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