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
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
The Amazon rainforest, spanning an area of 3,000,000 km2, is the world's largest rainforest. It encompasses the largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest on the planet, representing over half of
Deforestation in the Maranhão state of Brazil, July 2016
Deforestation in Bolivia, in June 2014
Deforestation in Colombia
One consequence of forest clearing in the Amazon: thick smoke that hangs over the forest