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Burma is just opening up to tourism, and travel experts are predicting that cruises on the 1348 mile (2170 km) Irrawaddy river will prove one of the country's most popular attractions. The river flows from the north to the south of Burma and has been used since the 6th century for trade and transport, becoming particularly important to the British Empire after it colonised Burma. It remains so today: its water helps to irrigate the rice paddies in the Irrawaddy Delta. The river is also a haven for wildlife, and is named after the Irrawaddy river dolphin, which can be found in its lower reaches.
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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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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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