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Map of the Amazon rainforest ecoregions as delineated by the WWF in dark green [1] and the Amazon drainage basin in light green.
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.
Explore Amazon Rainforest in Google Earth.
You can see exactly where by using the Amazon Rainforest Map, below. The rainforest is the area of dark green that covers most of the top of the continent. The rainforest is located in the Amazon Basin. This is the area that drains into the Amazon River.
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.
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.
Geological Map of South America. The Amazon Rainforest is located in upper South America. The greenish-yellow highlighted portion shows where the Amazon Rainforest is. The majority of upper South America is where this important natural resource is.
The Amazon Rainforest covers 3.4 million square miles, this is less than 2% of the Earth's surface, yet this space produces more than 10 times that amounts worth of the world's oxygen. The Amazon Rainforest is a tropical rainforest and is located very close to the Equator.
It is home to Earth’s largest rainforest, as well as the largest river for the volume of the flow and the size of the drainage basin. The rainforest, which covers about 80 percent of the basin, is home to one-fifth of the world’s land species, including many found nowhere else in the world.
The Amazon basin is exceptional. It spans at least 6 million square kilometers (2.3 million square miles), nearly twice the size of India. It is home to Earth’s largest rainforest, as well as the largest river for the volume of the flow and the size of the drainage basin.