Amazon Rainforest

The Amazon River Basin is home to the largest rainforest on Earth. 

Here are some facts about this beautiful place.

Today, the Amazon River is the most voluminous river on Earth, 11 times the volume of the Mississippi, and drains an area equivalent in size to the United States.

 These are the 'Amazon countries':

Bolivia       

Brazil     

Colombia     

Ecuador    

French Guiana      

Guyana       

Peru       

Suriname       

Venezuela         

This video is simply breathtaking! Click on it and make it full-screen to enjoy to the full!

Wild Amazon from Fabián Aguirre on Vimeo.

 

Kaiapo shaman in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil 

Deforestation :(

Kaiapo mother and child, Brazil

 Kaiapo father with child in the Amazon, Brazil

  Scale-crested Pygmy-tyrant

   

Mostly from: http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/

http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/facts.html