The Amazon River is the biggest river in the world. It contains more water than the Nile the Mississippi and the Yangtze rivers put together. And next to the Nile, it is the longest river in the world. The Amazon starts in Peru and slowly flows all the way across Brazil to the Atlantic Ocean. Over most of this great distance, the river flows through jungles where it rains for months at a time. The surface of the Amazon looks as smooth as glass. But under the surface, the water is full of snakes, eels, alligators, and a deadly fish called the Piranha. These tiny fish attack in bunches. They can eat an animal as big as a horse in just a few minutes. There’s a lot of life on the surface of the Amazon River, too. Some of the people living along the river build their houses on wooden rafts that are tied together with ropes. Then, when the river floods during the rainy season, the whole village rises with the water. The Amazon River is so wide; the people living in this village can hardly see the other side. It is said that many smaller rivers join the mighty Amazon as it nears the Atlantic Ocean.
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