Amazon Rainforest
Nature
The largest rainforest on Earth, spread across much of South America.
The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world: about six million square kilometres of trees, rivers and swamp. Around 60 per cent of it lies in Brazil; the rest is shared by eight other countries and territories.
Through the middle runs the Amazon river, which carries more water than any other river on Earth. About one in ten of all known kinds of plants and animals lives here.
- of forest, roughly
- 6 million km²
- lies in Brazil
- 60%
- known species lives here
- 1 in 10
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There are thought to be about 390 billion trees in the Amazon.
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The forest makes part of its own rain: the trees breathe out water that falls again further on.
- 3
Some groups of people in the forest have never been in contact with the outside world.
Question 1 of 2
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