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The world's most magnificent waterways
The Nile, Africa
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The Nile is the longest river in the world, with a total length of 4130 miles (6650 km). The river runs through ten countries: Sudan, South Sudan, Burundi, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Egypt. The name Nile comes from the Greek "neilos", which means valley, although the ancient Egyptians called it the River Ar (meaning black) because of the colour of the sediment left after the river's annual flood. These days, cruise fans can explore the river on traditional feluccas or larger, more luxurious vessels.
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19/09/2012 10:56
I don't know why people still instead in saying that the Nile is the longest river, the Amazon is the longest river, it runs through Brazil (which on its own already has the size of these 10 countries together) and Peru, Bolivia, Colombia Ecuador, Venezuala and Guyana. The Nile only looks bigger when it is only taken into consideration the Brazilian part of it. In addition to that, at the discharge of the river, the Nile has 1,584 cubic m per second and the Amazon 180,000. Quite frankly, it makes the Nile look like a little stream.
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18/09/2012 23:12
i discovered a fish there two years ago it had arms and three little fingers on each limb its headwas flat like a bullhead the arms moved all about like a diver i called it the diver fish as i never knew of one before it was about 2 feet long i caught it on the river bottom using some kind of pork rind in a tin local stuff.it had 4 -6 mm long death black eyes .well weird took a foto but camera was knicked from bag we think local village boy
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