The Amazon River Basin is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, located in South America. It is under the control of the equatorial low pressure all year round, with high temperatures throughout the year, prevailing updrafts, and easy to form clouds and rain. The Amazon River and its tributaries converge, bringing sufficient water to the tropical rainforest. The terrain is open to the Atlantic Ocean, ensuring a steady supply of water vapor. Therefore, there are few cities in the Amazon River Basin.

The Amazon River is the river with the largest flow in the world. Whether in terms of flow, basin area, or the number of tributaries, it can kill all the rivers in the world in seconds. Even the flow of a tributary can surpass the Yangtze River and crush the Nile River by more than 30 times. But even so powerful, the Amazon River is still not the longest river in the world, and can only be ranked as the second longest river in the world. Why is this?

Because the American continent is not wide enough! South America is only 3,300 kilometers from the mouth of the Amazon River to Lima, the capital of Peru, which borders the Pacific Ocean in the west, while the length of the Amazon River is 6,400 kilometers, which is almost the width of two American continents. It is precisely because of this that the Amazon River can crisscross the east and west, divide the north and the south, and "tear" the American continent. The Amazon River is the only river in the world that can "flow through" the entire continent. Its main river channel can even divide South America into two. The width of the Amazon River in the rainy season can often reach hundreds of kilometers. Isn't this the "Amazon Strait"? You know, the famous English Channel is only more than 30 kilometers wide, and the narrowest part of the Taiwan Strait is only 130 kilometers.

How far is the Amazon River from the Pacific Ocean in the west? Less than 60 kilometers! It was just a little bit away from crossing the Cordillera Mountains and hitting the Pacific Ocean. However, the Amazon River finally left 60 kilometers of "face" for the world's longest mountain system. After all, after you cross the mountains, the water cannot flow to the top of the mountain.

Where is the shortest point between the Amazon River and the Pacific Ocean? The closest distance to the Pacific Ocean is in a high mountain area in the west of Ecuador's Azuay Province. The capital of Azuay Province is located in the upper reaches of a tributary of the Amazon River.

The mighty Amazon River has done its best here. After all, this is the westernmost part of the South American watershed. Coupled with the distance of the Hanberry Strait, the Amazon River and the Pacific Ocean are less than 60 kilometers away, which is very close compared to the width of South America, which is 3,300 kilometers.

In addition to the geographical "hand-tear", the Amazon River and the tropical rainforest it formed have even torn a large gap in South America's culture, transportation, population distribution and density. It can even be said that the Amazon River has slowed down the process of civilization in South America.

Things like the Amazon River "tearing apart" the South American continent are just the tip of the iceberg of the river's many strengths. After all, the flow of the Amazon River accounts for 20% of the total flow of all rivers in the world. In the face of such super strength, any miracle is possible.

Since ancient times, people have claimed that "man can conquer nature", but little do they know that in front of the Amazon River, humans are so insignificant that there is no hydroelectric power station or even a bridge on the more than 2,000-kilometer main stream of the Amazon River.