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Did Amazon change its name to Amazon

Amazon River was renamed Amazon River because of transliteration.

The name of the Amazon River is only transliteration. Located in the north of South America, the Amazon River is the largest tributary river in the world. Because the measurement method of river length is inconclusive, there are many different opinions about the length of Amazon River. The Amazon River is the second longest river and the largest river in the world. Its river flow reaches 210.9 million cubic meters per second, which is several times larger than the sum of the other three major rivers: Nile, Africa, Yangtze River, China and Mississippi River in the United States. Amazon warrior, and named this river Amazon River. Rivers are characterized by large flow, located near the equator, controlled by the equatorial low pressure zone and abundant rainfall.