The Amazon River is located in the tropical rainforest, sparsely populated, has no shipping value, and has many rare species, so the Amazon River has low shipping value.

Most areas in the Amazon River basin have a tropical rainforest climate, and the upper reaches have a plateau mountain climate with an annual rainfall of more than 2,000 mm. The fertile silt deposited by the Amazon River nourishes an area of ​​6.5 million square kilometers.

In some places, the Amazon River is 6-10 kilometers wide. In some places, the river water is divided into two streams, forming a complex natural river network in the middle, forming many large and small islands, which are less than 5 meters higher than the river surface. In the narrowest place, such as Obidos, 600 kilometers away from the estuary, the river is only 1.6 kilometers wide, but 600 meters deep, and the river flow rate reaches 6-8 kilometers per hour. The Amazon River is known as the "King of Rivers". It originates from the top of the Mismi Snow Peak on the east side of Mount Coropuna in Peru, in the middle section of the Andes Mountains in South America. Its main source, the Ucariya River, constantly receives the gurgling icy water from the snowy peaks, and gathers the water of hundreds of rivers along the way to enter the famous Amazon Plain.

The Amazon River flows through Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Bolivia and Brazil. It finally flows into the Atlantic Ocean near Marajó Island in Brazil.

The Amazon River is more than 6,400 kilometers long, and it has thousands of tributaries, which together with the main stream form the Amazon River system with a total length of more than 60,000 kilometers. Its basin area is 7.05 million square kilometers, most of which is in Brazil.