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PERULow rainfall causes bottlenecks The Amazon River in Peru dropped this year to its lowest level since records started being kept nearly 40 years ago due to a reduction in rainfall. The navy's Amazon Hydrology and Navigation Service in the river port city of Iquitos reported that the river stood at 106.09 meters above sea level in mid-September, but levels have since started to normalize. The lower water levels in Peru caused navigational havoc, with barges traveling the 650-km Pucallpa-Iquitos route on the Ucayali and Amazon rivers taking up to 25 days to complete a journey that under normal conditions takes about five days. The Amazon is the world's second longest river, at 6,437 km, second only to the African Nile, which runs 6,825 km.
The Japan Times Weekly: Oct. 15, 2005 |
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