Amazon rainforest

Amazon Rainforests

Remember reading about the largest river in the world – The enormous amazon in South America. Why is it so large? One of the big reason is its location – right at the equator where it rains almost everyday! Hmm Lots of rain, a big river and a fertile land around it are perfect for making of a rainforest. Yes! we are talking about the giant rainforests of the amazon.

Amazon rainforest represents half of the total rainforests left on our planet. There are so many trees so close to each other that the rain falling on the canopy sometimes takes as long as 10 minutes to reach the forest floor. Some of these trees are 750 to 1,000 years old.

The biggest tree of the Amazon rainforest is The Kapok Tree. It can grow to 200 feet tall and the trunk can be 10 or 11 feet in diameter.

 

The Kapok tree in amazon around 180 feet tall

The Water Lily found here is the biggest flower in the world and can reach six feet wide. In the Amazon rainforest sometimes lakes are covered with water lilies. Someone can easily confuse it with floor covered with flowers !!

 

Water lilies

The number of edible fruits found in the rainforest is estimated in 3,000 while only 200 are cultivated by humans for eating.

 

Guarana fruit of amazon

There are some tribes that live in the rainforests and are touch with outside world but deep inside the rainforests there might be 50 tribes that have never had contact with the outside world.

 

Tribes of amazon

And this is not all. We haven’t even begun to talk about the wildlife in amazon. Well, should leave that for another time.

 

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5 responses to “Amazon Rainforests”

  1. Hank Avatar
    Hank

    Not enough facts! But still informational. :D

  2. Arusha Avatar
    Arusha

    Wow that was cool!please put more about amazon soon!
    Thanks

  3. Sora-Lee Sakura Avatar
    Sora-Lee Sakura

    I learnt lots from the info here, thanks i’ll go see it one day. P.S I really like venus fly traps and death lillies :)……and cats

  4. Sora-Lee Sakura Avatar
    Sora-Lee Sakura

    I want more amazon info too plz put more on plus the venus fly traps

  5. Yanis Boukhemal Avatar
    Yanis Boukhemal

    Nice information but really would like some info about plants and animals especially the pitcher plant

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