The Amazon Rainforest

The Amazon Rainforest is a

tropical forest in South America.
This forest is extended for 7,5
million square kilometres. The
majority of the forest is in Brazil,
but it is also in Peru, Colombia,
Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia,
Guyana, Suriname and French
Guiana.

In this forest there is an incredible biodiversity: 2.5 million insect species,

tens of thousands of plants, 2,000 birds and mammals, 3,000 fish species, etc.

One in ten species in the world lives

in Amazonia and one in five of all birds
in the world live in this rainforest. We
can name some of the many animals
that live there: black caiman, jaguar,
cougar, anaconda, scarlet macaw....

The Amazon rainforest is in the basin

of a river, the Amazon River and this
river is widespread along 6,800 km. It’s the biggest
drainage basin in the world. This big river receives
the water from many smaller rivers, including
Marañón, Japurá, Rio Negro, Ucayali, Purus,
Madeira, Xingu and Tocantin. In the river and its
margins there are a lot of animals, too: electric eels,
piranha, poison dart frogs, vampire bats and rabies.

The Amazon Rainforest and its river are very

beautiful and amazing.

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