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Amazon River Basin (The southern Guianas, not marked on this map, are a part of the basin.) The mouth of the Amazon River. The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [1] or about 35.5 percent of the South ...
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Amazon alluvium deposit. The Amazon Basin is a large sedimentary basin (620,000 square kilometres (240,000 sq mi)) located near the middle and lower course of the Amazon River, south the Guiana Shield and north of the Central Brazilian Shield. The basin developed on a rift that originated about 550 million years ago during the Cambrian.
Amazonas is located entirely within the Amazon basin. By drainage basin. Amazon River basin. Amazon River (includes the Solimões River) Tapajós River.
The Amazon biome has an area of 6,700,000 square kilometres (2,600,000 sq mi). [2] [a] The biome roughly corresponds to the Amazon basin, but excludes areas of the Andes to the west and cerrado (savannah) to the south, and includes lands to the northeast extending to the Atlantic ocean with similar vegetation to the Amazon basin. [2]
More than 450 fish species have been documented in the Xingu River Basin and it is estimated that the total is around 600 fish species, including many endemics. [11] At least 193 fish species living in rapids are known from the lower Xingu, [ 10 ] and at least 26 of these are endemic. [ 12 ]
By David Lawder. BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen launched on Saturday a new effort with Amazon basin governments to disrupt illicit finance that fuels nature crimes ...
The Port of Manaus is an important commercial center for ocean-going vessels traveling the Amazon. In fact, it is the main transport hub for the entire upper Amazon basin . It imports beef from the hinterlands and exports hides and leather.