The Amazon River Is in South America

The Amazon River is located entirely on the continent of South America.

• Length: ~6,400 km (4,000 mi) — 2nd longest globally (after Nile).
• Discharge: 209,000 m³/s — largest by volume (≈20% of global river flow).
• Basin: ~7 million km² — largest drainage basin on Earth.
• Countries traversed: Brazil (most), Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana.
• Mouth: Atlantic Ocean (wide estuary, 240 km wide).

The Amazon Basin hosts the Amazon Rainforest, the planet's largest tropical forest, making the river-rainforest system a keystone of global climate and biodiversity.