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The Amazon Rainforest is a large tropical rainforest occupying the drainage basin of the Amazon River and its many tributaries.
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The Amazon Rainforest is a large tropical rainforest occupying the drainage basin of the Amazon River and its many tributaries. The Amazon Rainforest is located between latitudes of 2? North and 10? South of the equator and longititudes of between 42? and 75? of the North Pole. The forest includes the greater part of Brazil and Peru, significant parts of Columbia, Ecuador, and a very small area of Venezuela. The Amazon rainforest covers a total area of 6,000,000 square km (2,300,000 square miles). Comprising about 40 percent of Brazil's total area, the vast rainforest is bounded by the Guiana Highlands to the north, the Andes Mountain ranges to the west, the Brazilian central plateau to the south and Atlantic Ocean to the east. The Amazon Rainforest widens from a 320 km front to a belt 1,900km wide where it meets the Andean foothills. The Amazon Rainforest represents about half...
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