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«The Orinoco basin of the Amazon» ?!

This is a geographic mistake, the Orinoco river is not a tributary of the Amazon, it's an independent river and one of the biggest. According to wikipedia it is the third or fourth largest river in the world by discharge volume of water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orinoco_Basin

«Its discharge is the third largest of any river worldwide, after the Amazon and the Congo»

Edit: change my wording about the journalist

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Here's the actual article instead of the telephone game in USA Today.

https://doi.org/10.3390/d16020127

Thanks, super interesting.

Actually the Amazon basin and the Orinoco basin are connected by the Casiquiare river (that flows in either directions depending on the rain).

That's why the newly identified Anaconda species is in both basins.

Is it possible the author is referring to the Amazon Rainforest instead of the Amazon River?

That is how I read it

The whole thing is confusing, where did they find it? In Ecuador or in the Orinoco basin? There no overlap between the two...

I don't know, the geographic mess is everywhere:

«A giant anaconda species captured recently in the Amazon of Ecuador»

The Orinoco basin doesn't reach Ecuador... The Orinoco basin is within Colombia and Venezuela (and touches Brazil).

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