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Amazon river basin

Amazon rainforest

By Ivan TZ
  • History
    1541

    History

    -The first ever people to touched the amazon where the Europeans to ever set a foot on the amazon was Francisco de Orellana, it was the cousin of famous conquistador
    -after the group was on the rain forest for a month they became stranded and finding themselves without any supplies
    - later on the group would attacked by some tribesmen until the amazon and followed that east until the group would emerged into the Atlantic in august 1542 this would be the first ever navigation of the amazon river
  • issues

    issues

    -in 5 year the amazon has already lost about 23. 7 of the hectares forest it is almost as big as the united kingdom.
    -it has also led to wildfires since the deforestation
    -the climate change as effected the rainforest by having droughts and causing wildfires
    https://infoamazonia.org/en/2023/03/21/deforestation-in-the-amazon-past-present-and-future/
  • Animals

    Animals

    -there is a super sized Slitherers amazon the home to largest snakes in the world which is the green anaconda which can grow up to 30 feet long.
    -it is also home to the pink dolphins they aren't actually pink but a light shade of gray they are usually in the freshwater rivers of the amazon
    - The amazon rainforest is home to 2.5 million insect species these insects help with vital role like https://shorturl.at/OaJJJ
  • weather

    weather

    • the amazon rain forest is mostly humid, tropical climate with warm temperatures year round -two of these main seasons are the wet season all the way through December to may with a high rain fall there is also a dry season through June to December -the amazon rain forest doesn't have no true winter or summer it is mostly wet and dry seasons the amazon rain forest receives 6 to 10 feet of rain annually
  • features

    features

    • the amazon rainforest the basin which would include all areas drained by the amazon river it covers approximately 2,896,00 square miles it encompasses around 40% of south American continent -the amazon rainforest is rank number one among the biggest forests in the world covering over 2.1 million square miles. -the amazon rainforest is home to 10 percent of all known species around the world including hundreds of animal. https://shorturl.at/dCZL4