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

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).

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...