Editing Amazon River (section)

=== Arrival of Europeans ===
[[File: Amazon CIAT (2).jpg|thumb|Amazon tributaries near Manaus]]

In March 1500, [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] [[conquistador]] [[Vicente Yáñez Pinzón]] was the first documented [[Ethnic groups in Europe|European]] to sail up the Amazon River.<ref name=Morison1974>{{cite book |last=Morison |first=Samuel |title=The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages, 1492–1616 |url=https://archive.org/details/europeandiscover00mori |url-access=registration |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1974 |location=New York}}</ref> [[Pinzón Island|Pinzón]] called the stream ''Río Santa María del Mar Dulce'', later shortened to ''Mar Dulce'', literally, ''sweet sea'', because of its freshwater pushing out into the ocean. Another [[Spanish language|Spanish]] explorer, [[Francisco de Orellana]], was the first [[European Union|European]] to travel from the origins of the upstream river basins, situated in the [[Andes]], to the mouth of the river. In this journey, Orellana baptized some of the affluents of the Amazonas like [[Rio Negro (Amazon)|Rio Negro]], [[Napo River|Napo]] and [[Juruá River|Jurua]].
The name Amazonas is thought to be taken from the native warriors that attacked this expedition, mostly women, that reminded De Orellana of the mythical female [[Amazons|Amazon]] warriors from the ancient [[Ancient Greece|Hellenic culture]] in Greece (see also [[#Etymology|Origin of the name]]).