Monte Alegre várzea
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The Monte Alegre várzea (NT0141) is an ecoregion of seasonally flooded várzea forest along the Amazon River in the Amazon biome.
Left bank of the Solimões at Careiro da Várzea
Várzea forest
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A várzea forest is a seasonal floodplain forest inundated by whitewater rivers that occurs in the Amazon biome. Until the late 1970s, the definition was less clear and várzea was often used for all periodically flooded Amazonian forests.
A river in the Amazon
Amazonas floating village, Iquitos
Grove of açaí palms