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.
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Area (sq km) PopulationDocumented 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
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Source Amazon rainforest (Wikipedia)
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1. Amazonia (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationIntroductionQuote, Introduction
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.
2. Amazon rainforest (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundationlead section, second sentence
This basin encompasses 7 million km2 (2.7 million sq mi), of which 6 million km2 (2.3 million sq mi) are covered by the rainforest.
lead section, third paragraph, first sentence
More than 30 million people of 350 different ethnic groups live in the Amazon, which are subdivided into 9 different national political systems and 3,344 formally acknowledged indigenous territories.
Shaped By: Drainage Basin Formation, Natural/geology section
Within the last 5-10 million years, this accumulating water broke through the Purus Arch, joining the easterly flow toward the Atlantic.
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