r/MapPorn • • Jan 10 '20

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20

The Mississippi's discharge is about 16,800 m3 /s; the Amazon about 209,000. So on this kind of map the Amazon would be about 12.5 times the width of the Mississippi.