The Amazon biome contains the Amazon rainforest, an area of tropical rainforest, and other ecoregions that cover most of the Amazon basin and some adjacent areas to the north and east. The biome contains blackwater and whitewater flooded forest, lowland and montane terra firma forest, bamboo and palm forest, savanna, sandy heath and alpine tundra. Some areas of the biome are threatened by deforestation for timber and to make way for pasture or soybean plantations.
Anavilhanas National Park, Amazonas, Brazil
Cerros de Mavecure in the Guiana Shield in Colombia
White water of the Solimões and black water of the Rio Negro converge to form the Amazon River
Pico da Neblina on the Brazil–Venezuela border. The Pico da Neblina National Park has a variety of ecosystems.
The Amazon rainforest, also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km2 (2,700,000 sq mi), of which 5,500,000 km2 (2,100,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations and 3,344 formally acknowledged indigenous territories.
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
Ribeirinhos dwellings. Ribeirinhos are a traditional rural non-indigenous population in the Amazon rainforest, who live near rivers