AMAZON RAINFOREST - 10 FACT AND THINGS
AMAZON RAINFOREST
The amazon rainforest,alternat ively, the amazon jungle, also know in Engli sh as Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the amazon basin of south America. this basin encompasses, of which are covere d by the r
The majority of the forest is cont ained within brazil, with 60% of the rainfo rest, followed by peru with 13%, Colombia with 10%, and with minor amount in Vene zuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.
four nation have ''Amazon'' as the name of one of their first-level ad minist rative region and France uses the na me ''Guiana Amazon Park'' for its rainforest protect area. The Amazon represent over half of the planet's remaining rainforest, and comprises the largest and most biodiverse tract of tropical rainforest in the world, with an estimated 390 billion individual tree divided into 16,000 species.
The name Amazon is said to arise from a war Francisco de Orellana fought with the Tapuvas and other tribes. the women of the tribe fought alongside the men, as was their custom. Orellana derived the name Amazonas from the Amazons of Greek mythology, described by Herodotus and Diodorus. the account of missionaries to the area in the borderland between brazil and Venezuela have recounted constant infighting in the Yanomani tribes.
10 FACT ABOUT THE AMAZON RAINFOREST
1 20% Of the Earth's oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest.
2 The Amazon represent more than half of the Earth's Rainforests.
3 During the past 40 years, at least 20% of the Amazon rainforest has been cut down.
4 The Amazon rainforest encompasses an area of 5,500,000 sq Kilometres (2,100,000 sq mi), two time the size of Argentina.
5 The Amazon rainforest has been in existence for at least 55 million years.
6 The name ''Amazon'' comes from the ''Amazon'' of Greek mythology, race of Women Warriors in many tribes of the area, women fought alongside the men.
7 There are no bridges over the Amazon River.
8 While most of the Amazon rainforest is in Brazil(60%), it's also in Peru(13%), Colombia (10%), Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and three countries.
9 The Amazon River discharges 5 times as much water as any other river on the planet.
10 Almost four hundred billion trees belonging to 16,000 different species grow in the Amazon rainforest.
10 THINGS FOUND IN THE AMAZON
1 Alien Sightings - Some article are claiming that something was spotted via google maps which looked weird enough to get people excited. Some people are claiming that this image is actually
an ancient UFO hovering above the Amazon Rainforest.
3 Iguazu Falls - If you're taking a trip up the Amazon river then be sure to watch out for iguazu falls. watch out because it's a stunning location but also really watch out because you might go over the edge of it located between the state of parana in brazil and misiones, an Argentina province, the most incredible thing about the falls is their sheer scale.
4 Zatypota Wasp - This newly discovered species of wasp was described as elegant looking and graceful. But this wasp found in the Ecuadorian Amazon is brutal. like other wasp species, the zatypota
wasp has a lovely exterior that hides a pretty and disturbing truth. the female wasp will lay her eggs on the abdomen of the anelosimus exmius spiders, one of only about 25 species of ''social'' spiders worldwide.
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