The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [2] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest. [3]

2020年8月18日 · The Amazon Rainforest, teeming with life and biodiversity, home to millions of species of plants, animals, and insects, was made possible by volcanoes, colliding tectonic plates, the uplift of the Andes, and Ice Ages. The Amazon, …

2025年1月28日 · 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.

The Amazon rainforest is the biggest forest in the world and is also the last big space covered with tropical plants and animals. The Amazon forest territory is a tropical rainforest that is located in the north side of the South American continent and is shared by 9 countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela,…

View of Manú National Park in the Amazon Rainforest. This is a timeline of Amazon history, which dates back at least 11,000 years ago, when humans left indications of their presence in Caverna da Pedra Pintada. [1] [2] Here is a brief timeline of historical events in the Amazon River valley.

2024年4月4日 · THE HISTORY OF THE AMAZON RAINFOREST. At one time Amazon River flowed westward, perhaps as part of a proto-Congo river system from the interior of present day Africa when the continents were joined as part of Gondwana. Fifteen million years ago, the Andes were formed by the collision of the South American plate with the Nazca plate.

2023年1月1日 · The marine palynological record from CDH-79 records the history of Amazonian biomes for the past 1800 kyr exceeding the temporal length of previous records by an order of magnitude. The biome reconstruction reveals a continuous presence of a highly diverse tropical rainforest in large areas of the Amazon drainage basin since the middle Pleistocene.

2010年11月12日 · We show that Andean uplift was crucial for the evolution of Amazonian landscapes and ecosystems, and that current biodiversity patterns are rooted deep in the pre-Quaternary. Pleistocene forest remnants (“refugia”) were long held to be responsible for Amazonian diversity (1).

The Amazon is most biodiverse tract of tropical rainforest in the world, with an estimated 390 billion individual trees divided into 16,000 species. The Amazon Forest is directly responsible for the production of 50 percent of the world's replenishable supply of oxygen and influences local and regional weather patterns (in some deforested areas ...

2024年8月9日 · In the 16th century, European explorers embarked on daring expeditions to unravel the mysteries of the Amazon rainforest. Figures like Francisco de Orellana and Alexander von Humboldt ventured deep into the heart of the jungle, documenting their encounters with indigenous communities and documenting the incredible biodiversity they discovered.