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The Amazon Rainforest is the largest equatorial forest in the world, located in the Amazon River Basin on the South American continent, largely affected by the humid climate. The forest covers an area of 55 million square kilometers of the total 70 million square kilometers of the Amazon River Basin.
Naming history:
The Amazon name for the Amazon rainforest is given by Francisco de Orellama. It is said that Francisco de Orellama fought with Tapuas and other tribes. The women of the group fought with the men according to their custom. Orellana got its name from the Amazon myths described by Herodotus and Diodorus.
Location:
Located in the floodplain of the Amazon River, this rainforest is spread across nine countries of the South American continent. About 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest is located in Brazil, 13 percent in Peru, and the rest in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guyana.
Human Settlement:
Archaeological evidence excavated at Caverna da Pedra Pintada shows that human settlers first settled in the Amazon region at least 11,200 years ago. Subsequent developments can be seen along the perimeter of the forest in 1250 AD. For a long time it was thought that the Amazon Rain Forest was never more populous than the less populous because it was impossible to sustain a large population through barren land and agriculture. Archaeologist Betty McGuire was a prominent proponent of this idea, as described in her book Amazonia: Man and Culture in Counter Night Paradise. He claimed that the population density of 0.2 per sq km is the maximum that can survive in the rain through hunting, where agriculture is needed for the income of the larger population. However, recent ethnographic research has shown that the area was actually densely populated. By 1500, about 5 million people had settled in the Amazon region. By 1900 the population had shrunk to 10 million, and by the early 1970s it was less than 200,000.
Biodiversity:
This rainforest is rich in biodiversity. This has 390 billion trees in the forest that is divided into 16,000 species. Besides, 1294 species of birds, 378 species of reptiles, 428 species of amphibians and 427 species of mammals, including thousands of species of other species of animals are not known.
However, this lungs of the world have been decaying for many reasons, including forestry, unplanned human business fires in recent times. The only way to survive, every country in the world will have to come forward to protect this forest land. Remember that the lungs of the world will survive until the human society is active.
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