Major drainage basin in South America drained via the Amazon River into the Atlantic Ocean
This article is about the drainage basin. For the geologic feature, see Amazon Basin (sedimentary basin).
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 km2 (2,700,000 sq mi),[1] or about 35.5 percent of the South American continent. It is located in the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, as well as the territory of French Guiana.[2][3]
Most of the basin is covered by the Amazon rainforest, also known as Amazonia. With a 5.5 million km2 (2.1 million sq mi) area of dense tropical forest, it is the largest rainforest in the world.
The Amazonbasin 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...
Amazon rainforest, also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon...
River on Nevado Mismi had been considered for nearly a century the Amazonbasin's most distant source until a 2014 study found it to be the headwaters...
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fields and crops. Indigenous areas in the Peruvian Amazon, like the Urarina's Chambira River Basin, experience limited soil productivity, leading to the...
generation. The rainforest in the Congo Basin is the largest rainforest in Africa and second only to the Amazon rainforest in size, with 300 million hectares...
related to the extraction and commercialization of rubber. Centered in the AmazonBasin, the boom resulted in a large expansion of colonization in the area,...
subspecies are distributed in the Amazonbasin, the upper Madeira River in Bolivia, and the Orinoco basin, respectively. The Amazon river dolphin is the largest...
to boost primary production. For the Amazonbasin, which is limited in phosphorus in much of the soil in the basin, Saharan dust is a main source of phosphorus...
result, Inca expansion into the AmazonBasin and the Pacific coast of Ecuador was hampered. The indigenous people of the Amazon jungle and coastal Ecuador...
with a wet and dry season. The eastern portions of Peru include the AmazonBasin or selva baja, a region that is larger in the north than in the south...
of tropical rainforest, and other ecoregions that cover most of the Amazonbasin and some adjacent areas to the north and east. The biome contains blackwater...
communal houses. The Korubu live in the lower Vale do Javari in the western AmazonBasin. Other tribes may include the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau, and the Himarimã. There...
the snowcapped peaks of the Andes mountain range to the plains of the AmazonBasin. Cotopaxi in Ecuador is one of the world's highest active volcanos. It...
increased drought risks are the Amazonbasin, Australia, the Sahel region and India. For example, in 2005, parts of the Amazonbasin experienced the worst drought...
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criteria or basin criteria: 96,922.47 km2 (37,421.97 sq mi) (75.31% of Peruvian territory and approximately 16.13% of the whole Amazonbasin). The Peruvian...
Corallus batesii, also known commonly as the AmazonBasin emerald tree boa, is a species of snake in the subfamily Boinae of the family Boidae. The species...
shown. The Amazonbasin formerly drained westwards into the Pacific Ocean, until the Andes rose and reversed the drainage. The Congo basin is completely...
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development of the AmazonBasin. Its member states are: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela. The Amazon Cooperation Treaty...
water. However, this growth appears only in the undisturbed parts of the Amazonbasin, where researchers believe roots can reach deeper and gather more rainwater...
The Yacuruna are a mythical water people of the Amazonbasin who live in beautiful underwater cities, often at the mouths of rivers. Belief in the Yacuruna...
and Chile and covers roughly half of the continent's land area. Its Amazonbasin includes a vast tropical forest, home to diverse wildlife, a variety...
Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA) (Spanish: Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica)...
coastal areas and rivers of the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, the Amazonbasin, and West Africa. The main causes of death for manatees are human-related...
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