FTP name this river which carries one-fifth of the fresh water in the world, the second longest on earth.
It began forming over 200 million years ago when its highlands developed from rains falling on Gondwanaland. The first European to see it was Vincente Pinzon in 1500, and in 1540 Francisco de Orellana sailed from its tributary the Napo to its main body and named it for a tribe he saw, the Icamiabas, a fierce group of warriors whose name translates as "women without husbands." FTP name this river which carries one-fifth of the fresh water in the world, the second longest on earth.
It began forming over 200 million years ago when its highlands developed from rains falling on Gondwanaland.
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