Region

Amazonia

Americas

Amazonia is the vast tropical bioregion and cultural macro-region of northern South America built around the Amazon rainforest and its watershed, spanning parts of Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. Home to the largest tract of rainforest on Earth and an extraordinary concentration of biodiversity and indigenous peoples, it is defined as much by its ecological and cultural unity as by the river system that drains it.

Facts

Area (sq km)

7,000,000 2

Population

30,000,000 2

Documented in the cited source as "more than 30 million"; no single precise census total exists for the whole Amazon basin, so this is a lower-bound figure, not an exact count.

Classification

Region Type

Physiographic or Climatic Region 1

Region Type

Physiographic or Climatic Region 1

FAQs

Which countries share the Amazon rainforest?

Nine nations share it, with Brazil holding about 60 percent.

The Amazon rainforest covers territory belonging to nine nations. Brazil holds the majority at 60 percent, followed by Peru with 13 percent and Colombia with 10 percent. Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela hold minor amounts.

Connections

Shaped By

Drainage Basin Formation

Source Amazon rainforest (Wikipedia)

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Origin Of

Chicha

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Cocoa Nib

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Sacha Inchi Oil

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Found There

Cacao

Also in Agriculture and Farming Atlas: found in this subject.

Source Cacao Tree (Wikipedia)

Cassava

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Source Cassava (Wikipedia)

Rubber Tree

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Amazonian languages

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Source Amazonian languages - WikipediaLead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article

Quote, Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article

Amazonian languages is the term used to refer to the indigenous languages of "Greater Amazonia."

Cofán

Also in Language Atlas: found in this subject.

Source Wikipedia: Cofán LanguageLead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia articletier 2

Quote, Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article

Cofán or Kofán, known in the language itself as Aʼingae, is the primary language of the Cofán people, an indigenous group whose ancestral territory lies at the interface between the Andean foothills and Amazonia in the northeast of Ecuador (Sucumbíos province) and southern Colombia (Putumayo and Nariño provinces), who call themselves the Aʼi.

Itonama

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Pre-Andine languages

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Ticuna-Yuri

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Blunt-leaved Bog-moss