What is the widest river on earth?

Question

What is the widest river on earth?

Answer 1

The Lena river in Siberia empties  through a 250 mile (400 km) wide delta into the Arctic Ocean.

http://www.answers.com/topic/lena

Answer 2

Río de la Plata. 137 miles wide where it meets the Atlantic Ocean.

Answer 3

this article shows that the amazon is six miles wide

Answer 4

Here are the top 3 - you make the decision

Amazon - at the mouth is 150 miles but is 6.8 mi wide (on average) during the dry season - rainy season is much wider - up to 25 miles

"The Amazon enters the Atlantic through a broad estuary, roughly estimated at 240 km (about 150 mi) in width."

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_7615...

The Rio de la Plata River is "40 leagues wide" or 138 miles, it varies in width as well from 1 to 3 miles and in some spots much less. During the rainy season it too increases between 10 and 30 miles

This is from a book from Harvard College Library about the Rio de la Plata River

http://books.google.ca/books?id=BEgCAAAA...

the Lena River - empties in a 250-mile-wide delta at the Laptev Sea and it reaches a width of 8 1/2 miles (14 km) in some places

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/arti...

http://geography.howstuffworks.com/asia/...