The Amazon River may be the longest in the world

According to an expedition done in 1996 led by the Polish journalist and explorer Jacek Palkiewicz, the Amazon River originates in the Quehuisha snow peak in the region of Arequipa at 5,150 meters above sea level. Its waters flow down the Andean Mountains and the Amazon Rain Forest crossing Peru and Brazil, and reaching the Atlantic Ocean after traveling for 7,062 kilometers. This fact makes it 391 kilometers longer than the Nile River, in Africa, which is 6,671 kilometers long. However, these measures were just recently validated by the international science community; among them are the London Geographic Society, the Russian Academy of Science, the Lima Geographic Society, and the Brazilian Institute of Space Investigations. Other explorations such as the one sponsored by the National Geographic Society in the year 2000, revealed that the birth of the Amazon River is in the Mismi snow peak, in the region of Arequipa, which meant that the Amazon River is the second longest in the world after the Nile. However, there are more expeditions that came up with different measures from the Mismi Peak, claiming that the Amazon River is 6,800 kilometers long compared to the 6,695 Km. of the Nile. These differences in claims and measurements will indeed trigger more expeditions that some day will come up with a common recognition of which river is the longest in the World. http://www.ecolatino.net/html/_cual_es_el_rio_mas_largo_del_.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6759291.stm http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2007/06/04/ciencia/1180942878.html http://www.caretas.com.pe/2000/1650/articulos/amazonas.phtml