Amazon River

My husband and I  had the pleasure of taking a trip to see the Amazon River in South America. The Amazon river is the  second largest river in the world at 4,345 miles and the largest water flow. The Amazon River floods every year during the rainy season. The width of the Amazon is between 1.0 and 6.2 miles at low stage but expands during the wet season to 30 miles or more. The Amazon River divides into multiple channels that are long and with inland and lateral channels.  They are connected by very complicated natural canals and very low land. The canals were all shapes and sizes.  It is believed that the lower part of the Amazon River was once a gulf in the Atlantic Ocean. The lower parts of the river, the north bank is consisted of a series of steep table top hills.  The south part of the Amazon River is a line of low bluffs bordering the floodplains. From the pictures the water seems to change colors the more you travel along the river.