On Sunday, April 8, 200 7, 52-year old Martin Strel completed the first-ever swim of the 3,274-mile-long Amazon River.
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Can you swim in the Amazon River? You can swim in the Amazon River, but it would be dangerous from animals like caimans, anacondas, piranhas, electric eels, bull sharks, leeches, sting rays, and candirus.
The Amazon River is home to dangerous aquatic animals, waterborne diseases, and pollution concerns that require caution and preparation. While swimming in the Amazon River is not recommended, there are still many ways to appreciate and explore this unique environment safely and responsibly.
The Amazon River in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the disputed longest river system in the world in comparison to the Nile.
The Amazon flows into the Atlantic Ocean forming an estuary that is 240 kilometres wide. It discharges so much water into the Atlantic, that, more than 160 kilometres into the open sea, opposite the river mouth, you could still drink freshwater from the ocean.
Mollusk populations went way down as the river evolved. Today, even the hyper-diverse Amazon only has three species of crocodile -- all the more generalized caimans -- that live in the same area, and they rarely stay in the same habitats at the same time.
The Congo is the deepest river in the world. Its headwaters are in the north-east of Zambia, between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Nyasa (Malawi), 1760 metres above sea level; it flows into the Atlantic Ocean.
Today, there are few, if any, remaining outside southernmost Egypt. Construction of the Aswan High Dam in 1960 has pushed their nests towards man-made Lake Nasser. Because our Authentic Nile Cruises embark from Luxor and cease in Aswan there is little chance a ravenous croc will present itself.