Purus várzea
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The Purus várzea is an ecoregion of seasonally flooded várzea forest in the central Amazon basin. It is part of the Amazon biome. The ecoregion is home to a vegetation adapted to floods of up to 12 me
Wooden bridge traversing seasonally flooded forest near Leticia, Colombia
Japurá River
The endemic black squirrel monkey (Saimiri vanzolinii)
The Solimões-Japurá moist forests is an ecoregion in northwest Brazil and eastern Peru and Colombia in the Amazon biome. It has a hot climate with high rainfall throughout the year, and holds one of t
Purus várzea
…moist forests, and to the northeast it adjoins the Japurá–Solimões–Negro moist forests. Streams that flow through the Southwest Amazon moist forests, Solimões–Japurá moist forests and Caquetá moist forests to the west, and the Juruá–Purus moist forests in the central region all contain stretches of the varzea. The Monte Alegre…
Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia