The Quebrada Carhuasanta's located in the Apurímac Region of Peru. It's known as the headwaters of the Amazon River. The brook's fed by the winter snows of Nevado Mismi, (5,597 m), some 6,400 kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean. Of all the possible river sources in the Amazon Basin, it's the snow melt of the Carhuasanta that's been calculated by cartographers to be the furthermost water source from the mouth of the Amazon. The Carhuasanta joins with the Quebrada Apacheta, becoming the Rio Lo… (More on Carhuasanta)