What is the width of the Amazon river?

The Amazon is second longest river in the world after Nile ,at about 4075 miles.The width of Amazon varies from only 1 mile at some places during dry season to about 30 miles during wet season. read more

The year-round width of the river is as much as 6 miles as far as 100 miles upriver. Large ships can dock all the way up to Iquitos, Peru. The Amazon River is the second-longest river in the world, after the Nile, at about 4,075 miles. The source of the Amazon is high in the Peruvian Andes, and it has approximately 1,100 tributaries emptying into it. read more

A more conservative measurement excluding the Pará river estuary, from the mouth of the Araguari River to Ponta do Navio on the northern coast of Marajó, would still give the mouth of the Amazon a width of over 180 kilometres (110 mi). read more