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Click image to enlarge. Map of the Amazon Basin in South America. Satellite. Map. Terrain. 2009 Amazon Protected Areas and Indigenous Territories. Image courtesy of the Red Amazónica de Información Socioambiental Georreferenciada (RAISG). High resolution. More on the Amazon Rainforest and Tropical Rainforests.
Amazon River Map. Flowing majestically through South America's heartland, the Amazon River is the world's largest by volume, providing a rich ecosystem for countless species. This mighty river stretches over 4,000 miles, defining biodiversity and showcasing the immense beauty and fragileness of Earth's largest rainforest.
The 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 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest. [3]
3 dni temu · Amazon 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.
7 lut 2023 · By 2030, up to 27% of the Amazon could be empty of trees, according to experts, if current deforestation rates persist. The Amazon, which dominates South America and is a shelter for amazing wildlife, is home to 390 billion trees.
The Amazon is the world's biggest rainforest, larger than the next two largest rainforests — in the Congo Basin and Indonesia — combined. As of 2020, the Amazon has 526 million hectares of primary forest, which accounts for nearly 84% of the region's 629 million hectares of total tree cover.
