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The mightiest of the world's great rivers is the Amazon. It drains an area equivalent to more than two thirds of the continental United States. It pours into the Atlantic Ocean about one-fifth of the freshwater that flows into all the world's oceans, a volume so gigantic that it alters ocean salt levels 200 miles from its mouth.

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Were there ancient sites along the Amazon River?