• Gray
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    It’s wild how close the Amazon river basin comes to the west coast of the continent without draining into the ocean on that side.

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      The Andes blocking all the good stuff from going into Peru, Bolivia and Chile

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      I read somewhere that the Amazon River used to run from east to west until about 6 million years ago when the Andes Mountains developed, reversing the course

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      Well, there’s a little bunch of hills over there blocking it.