Rivers,Waterfalls and Lakes

The source of the Nile was discovered by Europeans in 1858 when British explorer John Hanning Speke reached Lake Victoria Nyanza, in what is now Burundi. Almost a hundreds year later , in 1953, the source of the Amazon was identified as a stream called Huarco flowing from the Misuie.But geographers do not consider the entire route to be part of the Amazon basin, so the Nile, with an overall length of 6695 km, is considered the world,s longest river.