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Volume
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Number 6
May 30, 2011 |
natureAlso
in
this section: Due to Brazil's increasing prosperity and
booming soybean exports to Asia, the river port of Manaus is of growing
importance to the Panama Canal
Manaus
and the Amazon Basin, seen from space
 For a higher-resolution version of this photo, click here This Envisat image, acquired on
28 September 2008, features the confluence of the Amazon Basin's main
"black" and "white" rivers --- the Rio Negro (visible flowing
east-southeast) and the Solimões (seen flowing along the bottom of the
image) respectively --- forming the Amazon River just below Manaus,
visible in white north of the confluence of the rivers.
Photo by the European Space Agency  Also
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