The most beautiful
spectacle is the one showed by nature!
The Amazon Rainforest, the world’s
largest ecological system, is an exotic
and enormous ecosystem covering 2.990.000
square miles, spread over nine countries
with 70% of its beauty and diversity in
Brazil. Its land area represents 50% of
Brazil’s territory, 20% of the surface
of the earth, 1/5 of the world’s available
fresh water and 1/3 of the earth’s
forest reserve. It contains over 1100 rivers
including the Amazon, the world’s
largest, at 55,000 km long. It is home to
more than 1500 species of fish, some as
big as 10 feet, and mammals like the pink
river dolphins and manatees.
The Amazon Rainforest is the most biodiverse
place on earth. It is the home to 250 species
of mammals, 15,000 species of insects, 1800
varieties of birds, 4000 species of plants
and marvelous orchids that grow along the
riverbank. |