Translation for 'Amazon River' from English to Slovak

Amazon (River)

Amazonka {f}geogr.

River Amazon [Br. usage]

Amazonka {f}geogr.

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yellow-crowned amazon

amazoňan {m} žltohlavý [Amazona ochrocephala]orn.T

river

rieka {f}

river drift

riečny nános {m}geol.hydrol.

Chari River

Šari {f}geogr.

Ems (River)

Emža {f}geogr.

Amur (River)

Amur {m}geogr.

river valley

riečne údolie {n}geogr.

Dnipro River

Dneper {m}geogr.

Shari River

Šari {f}geogr.

river terrace

riečna terasa {f}geol.hydrol.

Yellow River

Žltá rieka {f}geogr.

navigable river

splavná rieka {f}námor.

Athabasca River

Atabaska {f}geogr.

river [attr.]

riečny {adj}

river port

riečny prístav {m}námor.

Slave River

Rieka {f} otrokovgeogr.

river channel

riečisko {n}hydrol.

river mouth

ústie {n} riekyhydrol.

river bed

riečisko {n}hydrol.

Ganges (River)

Ganga {f}geogr.

• Native tribes along the Amazon River harvest the fibre to wrap around their blowgun darts. The fibres create a seal that allows the pressure to force the dart through the tube.
• The jaguar's bite force allows it to pierce the carapaces of the yellow-spotted Amazon river turtle ("Podocnemis unifilis") and the yellow-footed tortoise ("Chelonoidis denticulatus").
• In March 1500, Spanish conquistador Vicente Yáñez Pinzón was the first documented European to sail up the Amazon River.
• Drier and hotter weather occurs in parts of the Amazon River Basin, Colombia, and Central America.
• Between 1637 and 1715, Samuel Fritz founded 38 missions along the length of the Amazon river, between the Napo and Negro rivers, that were called the Omagua Missions.

• Almost all of the rivers in Ecuador form in the Sierra region and flow east toward the Amazon River or west toward the Pacific Ocean.
• As such, it forms a unique natural canal between the Orinoco and Amazon river systems.
• There are river boat service from Yurimaguas and Pucallpa to Iquitos, and from there to the Brazilian border in the Amazon river. Touristic boats can be reached at Puno in Lake Titicaca.
• The other four are the baiji ("Lipotes vexillifer") of the Yangtze River in China, now likely extinct; the Indus River dolphin of the Indus River in Pakistan; the Amazon river dolphin of the Amazon River in South America; and the Araguaian river dolphin (not considered a separate species until 2014) of the Araguaia–Tocantins basin in Brazil.