Posted by : Muhammad Khalid
Monday 2 June 2014
The Amazon
rainforest, also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle,
is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South
America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 square kilometres of which 5,500,000 square kilometres are covered by the rainforest. This region
includes territory belonging to nine nations. The majority of the forest is
contained within Brazil, with 60% of the rainforest, followed by Peru with 13%,
Colombia with 10%, and with minor amounts in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia,
Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. States or departments in four nations
contain "Amazonas" in their names. The Amazon represents over half of
the planet's remaining rainforests, and comprises the largest and most
biodiverse tract of tropical rainforest in the world, with an estimated 390
billion individual trees divided into 16,000 species. Source