Northern Brazil's Amazon Jungle
Things To Know
Federative Republic of Brazil
Fifth largest country in the world
Capital: Brasilia
The largest and most populous country in
South America.
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Official Language: Portuguese
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Explorers
Francisco
de Orellana was a Spanish conquistador and the first European to
travel the length of the Amazon river, in 1541-42; he named the Amazon
River.
Animals
The dense Amazonian jungle is home to more than thirty-five hundred
species of birds, tens of thousands of different kinds of insects,
eighty percent of all species of life can be found in this jungle,
and it is speculated that tens of thousands of life forms in the
jungle may still be unidentified.
The
Toucan Bird
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Featured Wildlife: Life on Land.
Frogs,
Red-Eyed Tree—Suction disks for fingers and toes.
Army Ants will
eat whatever it can outrun.
Over two thousand species of fresh-water fish are believed to live in
Amazonian waters.
The pirarucu is one of the largest freshwater fish in the world
and can weigh up to 400 pounds.
Climate
Tropical weather; high
temperatures and high rainfall.
Land
The great interior, much of which
is covered by the rainforest basin of the Amazon, remains sparsely settled.
Almost half of Brazil's territory
is covered by the basin of the Amazon River and its tributaries, a
region that is one of the world's largest rainforest ecologies.
Plants
Thousands of different varieties of plants live in the rainforest.
Tropical
Forest Products in daily use.
Rainforest
Plants
Games
Play
Amazon Explorer!
Explore the wilds of the Amazon jungle.
Stories
Amazonian
Legends
Print
Coloring Book
Rainforest birds, mammals and reptiles
Toucan:
Color by Number
Rainforest
Wordsearch
Make
Travel The
Amazon Game
Yanomami Feather Headdress
A Rainforest Craft: Make a Paper Bromeliad
View
Strata
There is a wide variety of life in the strata (different layers) of a rainforest.
Click on the eyes to see what you will find in each layer of a rainforest.
Fun
Facts
The total
length of the Amazon River is between 6,259km/3,903mi and 6,712km/4,195mi long
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