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The Amazon rainforest is a species-rich biome in which thousands of species live, including animals found nowhere else in the world. To date, there is at least 40,000 different kinds of plants, 427 kinds of mammals, 1,300 kinds of birds, 378 kinds of reptiles, more than 400 kinds of amphibians, and around 3,000 freshwater fish are living in Amazon.
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 ]
The Amazon biome has an area of 6,700,000 square kilometres (2,600,000 sq mi). [2] [a] The biome roughly corresponds to the Amazon basin, but excludes areas of the Andes to the west and cerrado (savannah) to the south, and includes lands to the northeast extending to the Atlantic ocean with similar vegetation to the Amazon basin. [2] J. J.
Amazon River Basin (the southern Guianas, not marked on this map, are a part of the basin) The mouth of the Amazon River. The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [1] or about 35.5 percent of the South ...
Birds of the Amazon rainforest (39 C, 525 P) F. Fish of the Amazon basin (368 P) Pages in category "Fauna of the Amazon" The following 200 pages are in this category ...
Experts are baffled as to how an 11-metre long humpback whale ended up dead in the Amazon jungle. When a flock of vultures were spotted flying above the decomposing mammal on Friday, a group of ...
Scientists are baffled after the carcass of a humpback whale was discovered in the Amazon rainforest, nearly 50 feet from shore. The young mammal, believed to be about a year old, was found over ...
The darkest layer is the forest floor, where most of the larger animals live. [6] With multiple environments, the Amazon rainforest is able to provide a home to thousands of birds with different survival needs. [4] Amazonia is commonly dived into eight areas of endemism (districts): Napo, Imeri, Guiana, Inambari, Rondonia, Tapahos, Xingu and Belem.