THE AMAZON FOREST
It is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. This basin has about seven million square kilometers, of which five and a half million square kilometers are covered by rainforest. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations. Most of the forest is inside Brazil, with 60 percent of the forest followed by Peru with 13 percent and small amounts in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. States and four nations departments have the name of Amazonas so. The Amazon represents over half of the remaining tropical rain forests on the planet and contains the greatest biodiversity in a tropical forest in the world. It is one of six major Brazilian biomes.
In Brazil, for the purposes of government and economy, the Amazon is bounded by an area called the “Legal Amazon” defined from the creation of the Superintendent of the Amazon Development (SUDAM) in 1966.
It is also called Amazon, the biome that in Brazil holds 49.29% of the territory and covers three (North, Northeast and Midwest) of the five regional divisions of the country, the largest terrestrial biome in the country. An area of six million hectares in the center of its basin, including the Jau National Park, was considered by UNESCO in 2000 (with an extension in 2003), a World Heritage Site .
The Amazon rainforest has been pre-selected in 2008 as a candidate for one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature by the Foundation of Seven Wonders of the World. In February 2009, Amazon was ranked first in Group E, the category for forests, national parks and nature reserves.
(Source https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaz%C3%B4nia).
