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The Carhuasanta stream on Nevado Mismi is identified as the Amazon source

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A National Geographic expedition places the most distant source of the Amazon at a stream on the northern flank of Nevado Mismi in the Peruvian Andes. The identification becomes the conventional answer for more than three decades and is still the one most often cited, though later surveys dispute it.

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  1. Story
  2. A National Geographic expedition places the most distant source of the Amazon at a stream on the northern flank of Nevado Mismi in the Peruvian Andes. The identification becomes the conventional answer for more than three decades and is still the one most often cited, though later surveys dispute it.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Amazon River
  5. Nevado Mismi
  6. The Carhuasanta stream on Nevado Mismi is identified as the Amazon source
  7. Connections
  8. Nevado Mismi
  9. Amazon River
  10. Amazon River
  11. Flying Rivers (Aerial Rivers)
  12. The Carhuasanta stream on Nevado Mismi is identified as the Amazon source
  13. Amazon Basin
  14. Nevado Mismi
  15. Meeting of the Waters (Encontro das Aguas)
  16. Orellana descends the river to the Atlantic
  17. The Carhuasanta stream on Nevado Mismi is identified as the Amazon source
  18. The most severe drought in the instrumental record
  19. Evidence
  20. Supports the claim that the most distant source of the Amazon lies in the Mantaro drainage rather than the Apurimac drainage identified in 1971, and therefore that the river's length remains contested. V55 verification basis: not retrieved in this session; the added length is deliberately not quoted and the volume details should be confirmed.
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