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Map of the Amazon rainforest ecoregions as delineated by the WWF in dark green [1] and the Amazon drainage basin in light green.
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Amazon Rainforest, large tropical rainforest occupying the Amazon basin in northern South America and covering an area of 2,300,000 square miles (6,000,000 square km). It is the world’s richest and most-varied biological reservoir, containing several million species.
Satellite. Map. Terrain. 2009 Amazon Protected Areas and Indigenous Territories. Image courtesy of the Red Amazónica de Información Socioambiental Georreferenciada (RAISG). High resolution. More on the Amazon Rainforest and Tropical Rainforests.
You can see exactly where by using the Amazon Rainforest Map, below. The rainforest is the area of dark green that covers most of the top of the continent. The rainforest is located in the Amazon Basin. This is the area that drains into the Amazon River.
The Amazon Rainforest. Occupying much of Brazil and Peru, and also parts of Guyana, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Suriname, French Guiana, and Venezuela, the Amazon River Basin is the world’s largest drainage system.
The Amazon is the world's biggest rainforest, larger than the next two largest rainforests — in the Congo Basin and Indonesia — combined. As of 2020, the Amazon has 526 million hectares of primary forest, which accounts for nearly 84% of the region's 629 million hectares of total tree cover.
Amazon Rainforest
It is home to Earth’s largest rainforest, as well as the largest river for the volume of the flow and the size of the drainage basin. The rainforest, which covers about 80 percent of the basin, is home to one-fifth of the world’s land species, including many found nowhere else in the world.
Amazon Rainforest. 3.4 million square miles of the earth.