2006-08-14 01:44:23 · 15 answers · asked by amir a 1 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ FIFA World Cup (TM)
The Nile is the longest river in the world at 6 695km, with the Amazon river being the second longest at 6 516km.
2006-08-14 01:53:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Assuming you aren't talking about Argentinian River Plate, this is a good question in football terms: It needs a great team to have a great champion.
The biggest river is - without any doubt - Amazon. It reach a discharge up to 300,000 m³ per second in the rainy season and has an huge basin, about 7 millions km2.
But it lose the lenght match. The lenght of a river is a numeric task. A river is made by its own tributaries, and,
'in most cases, at a confluence it is clear which stream is the main river and which is the tributary, as one stream is both much longer and carrying clearly more water than the other.
It can, however, happen that one stream is longer, but the other carries more water. Which stream is then the main river, and which is the tributary?
There are no fixed rules for answering this question. In Switzerland, for instance, the Alpine Rhine, which is longer than the Aare, is chosen as the main stream, although the Aare carries more water. In the case of upper-Mississippi (which carries more water) and Missouri (which is much longer) the choice is made according to the opposite criterion.'
(of course, when calculating Mississippi's lenght, we will measure it starting from MISSOURI sorce ;-) and it's called Mississippi-Missouri-Red Rock)
So, to declare which is the longest river, it'll need to pick the LONGER tributaries. Amazon born when Maranon and Rio Ucayali combine themselves. Ucayali is longer and it'll be picked; it born when Apurimac and Urubamba combine; Apurimac is the longer and it'll be picked.
So, the Apurimac-Ucayali-Amazon is about 6500 kms long.
Nile - as well as any other world river - is so far more little than Amazon, but its tributary system made it longer...
Nile born near Khartoum from Blue Nile (shorter) and White Nile (longer). So we need to follow White N. to its source... LAKE VICTORIA, made from many and many rivers... so we (knowing the rules ;-) will pick the LONGER tributary of the lake (Kagera, 850 kms long), we will add some other kms measuring from the point where Kagera came in the lake to the point where Nile goes out - ET VOILA - Kagera-Victoria-Nile is about 6700 Kms long.
It'll need a great team to win ;-))))
2006-08-14 11:29:15 · answer #2 · answered by erri 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Kallang River is the biggest river in Singapore
2006-08-14 08:52:01 · answer #3 · answered by Ed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The amazon river in South America, it is between 1 and 6 miles wide.
The longest river in the world is the Nile, in Africa. It is around 4,160 miles long.
2006-08-14 10:30:14 · answer #4 · answered by Exploradora 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Nile
2006-08-14 10:24:43 · answer #5 · answered by hidawallace 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the biggest river is nile in eygpt
2006-08-14 08:57:22 · answer #6 · answered by 23_duaa_07 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
longest is the nile while biggest is the amazon
2006-08-14 08:49:41 · answer #7 · answered by nijas . 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry people but it's the Nile
2006-08-14 21:24:10 · answer #8 · answered by Bou 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sava
2006-08-14 13:16:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the longest one is nile but the bigest is amazone .........
if you need them by" wich one is the longest" so:-
1. nile
2.amazone
3.mississippi
2006-08-14 12:55:24 · answer #10 · answered by lovely h 777 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋