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Spanish and Portuguese: Amazonas), in South America is the largest river by
discharge volume of water in the world and according to some authors, the longest
in length.
The headwaters of the Apurmac River on Nevado Mismi had been considered for nearly
a century as the Amazons most distant source, until a 2014 study found it to be
the Cordillera Rumi Cruz at the headwaters of the Mantaro River in Peru.[4] The
Mantaro and Apurmac confluence, and with other tributaries form the Ucayali River,
which in turn confluences with the Marann River upstream of Iquitos, Peru, to form
what countries other than Brazil consider to be the main stem of the Amazon.
Brazilians call this section the Solimoes River above its confluence with the Rio
Negro[5] to form what Brazilians call the Amazon at the Meeting of Waters
(Portuguese: Encontro das guas) at Manaus, the river's largest city.