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Bookmark or Share- About the Amazon | WWFThe Amazon River flows for more than 6,600 km, and with its hundreds of tributaries and streams contains the largest number of freshwater fish species in the world. Equally impressive are the unfathomable numbers of mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles4 found across the biome.
- Amazonian peoples, an introduction (article) | Khan AcademyAmazonian peoples, an introduction. Amazonia is a land of many rivers which eventually join to form the mainstream Amazon, carrying to the sea the rains and silt which feed the greatest forest in the world. Most of Amazonia is in Brazil, but an extensive network of tributaries flow into it from the neighbouring countries of Peru, Bolivia ...
- Amazon Rainforest | Plants, Animals, Climate, & DeforestationAmazon Rainforest, large tropical rainforest occupying the Amazon basin in northern South America and covering an area of 2,300,000 square miles (6,000,000 square km). It is the world’s richest and most-varied biological reservoir, containing several million species.
- Amazonia Under Threat | National GeographicSTART EXPLORING. Journey into the Amazon region, where thousands of species live in a delicate balance that’s imperiled by logging, mining, agriculture, roadbuilding, oil, and gas drilling.
- 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.
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