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The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers a large area spreading across the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia
Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest, near Manaus
Amazon basin seen from the ISS
Aerial view of part of the Amazon rainforest
Jaguar in the area of Miranda near Amazon basin
Amazon rainforest
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The Amazon rainforest, also called the Amazon jungle, Amazonia, or simply the Amazon, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America
Amazon basin
…Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, as well as the territory of French Guiana. Most of the basin is covered by the Amazon rainforest, also known as Amazonia. With a 6 million km2 (2.3 million mi2) area of dense tropical forest, it is the largest rainforest in the world. The Amazon…
Aerial view of a floodplain in the Amazon rainforest near Manaus
Manaus, with 2.2 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Amazon basin
The Yanomami are a group of approximately 32,000 indigenous people who live in the Amazon rainforest
Members of an uncontacted tribe encountered in the Brazilian state of Acre in 2009