The Amazon Forest - South America

The Amazon

 

 The Amazon rainforest, the world's largest tropical forest, covers approximately the size of India, including the world's largest river, the Amazon, and its tributaries. It is also called the world's lungs because it absorbs most of the world's carbon dioxide. The total area of the Amazon Basin is 75 million square kilometers. The forests cover an area of 55 lakh sq km.

 

16,000 species of trees, 40,000 other plant species, 2,500,000 insects, 2,200 freshwater fish species found elsewhere. 1300 species of birds, 427 mammals, 430 (water + land) species, 380 reptiles. Many more species have been counted, including electric eagles with deadly voltage, human-like fleshy branha fish, venomous arrow frogs, green anaconda mountain snakes, jaguar leopards, killer insect, Harpy Eagle, wandering spider, Giant Leopard, Bullet. Blood-sucking bats, highly venomous snakes are all there. The forest is so dense that even though it is tropical, only 1% of the sunlight reaches the land.

 

About 20% of the world's oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon rain pours 55 million gallons of water into the Atlantic every second. There are 55 tribes of wild people who speak their own language. Some of these tribes have no contact with the outside world and What the outside world is like.

Here lives a race of Telcamias women who lead a life without a husband. These women attacked the first Spanish inventor Francisco O'Reilly and his warriors, and he named the place after the heroic race of Greek mythology, the Amazon. There are 3,000 edible fruits on the Amazon. Fewer than 300 of these have been introduced to the West

The 200-foot-tall kapok tree in the Amazon is said to be taller than the California Redwood. Aptian is the world's largest tree of the genus Kabok. The Amazon jungle covers the borders of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, the two Guanas, and Suriname.

 

Deforestation is said to cause an average of 137 species of extinction per day, sometimes claiming only 30% of world production of carbon dioxide from caterpillars

These forests are the rainforests of the South American continent. The forests here are so dense that sometimes not even sunlight falls on the earth, the plants, vines and trees are so dense. And an immeasurable number of mosquitoes are produced here. Thus humans cannot go there easily. Everyone may remember that these forests caught fire in December last year.