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Bookmark or Share- Amazonas (Brazilian state) - WikipediaAmazonas (Brazilian Portuguese: [ɐmaˈzonɐs] ⓘ) is a state of Brazil, located in the North Region in the north-western corner of the country. It is the largest Brazilian state by area and the ninth-largest country subdivision in the world.
- Amazon rainforest - WikipediaThe Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [2] of which 5,500,000 km 2 (2,100,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest.
- The Amazon Rainforest - National Geographic SocietyGrades. 9 - 12. Occupying much of Brazil and Peru, and also parts of Guyana, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Suriname, French Guiana, and Venezuela, the Amazon River Basin is the world’s largest drainage system. The Amazon Basin supports the world’s largest rainforest, which accounts for more than half the total volume of rainforests in the world.
- Amazonas travel - Lonely Planet | Brazil, South AmericaSouth America. Welcome to the heart of the Amazon. Amazonas is Brazil’s largest state, spanning almost 1.6 million sq km. You could fit four Germanys within its borders with room left over for, say, Greece. It is here that the massive Solimões, Negro and Madeira rivers converge to form the Rio Amazonas, the granddaddy of them all.
- Amazon Rainforest | Plants, Animals, Climate, & DeforestationThe Amazon Rainforest is the world’s richest and most-varied biological reservoir, containing several million species of insects, plants, birds, and other forms of life, many still unrecorded by science.
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