What are the features of the Amazon?

The Amazon Biome, is defined as the area covered predominantly by dense moist tropical forest, with relatively small inclusions of several other types of vegetation such as savannas, floodplain forests, grasslands, swamps, bamboos, and palm forests.



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The Amazon River supplies more fresh water to the world's oceans than any other river. It also has the more tributaries than any other river and the world's largest watershed.It is the life-blood of an incredibly vast and diverse rain forest.

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With the current rate of deforestation, the world's rainforests will be gone by 2100. The rainforest is home to more than half of all species on Earth.

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While deforestation has decreased significantly in the Amazon this year, the forest is still burning at an alarming rate.

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