1. The Amazon is arguably the longest river in the world at 6,992 km, and contains more water than the Mississippi, Nile, and Yangtze combined.
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Amazon Legend
2. The name 'Amazon' was given by Spanish somebody Francisco Orellana, after he was attacked by female warriors named theIcamiabas, or 'women without husbands'.
He compared them to the Amazons of Greek mythology.
3. The Amazon delivers fifty five million gallons of water into the Atlantic each second.
4. More than 20% of the world's oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest.
5. If Amazonia were a country, it would be the 9th largest in the world, measuring in at a whopping 2.5 million square miles.
6. twenty fifth of all western prescribed drugs come back from rain forest primarily based ingredients, yet less than 1% of the trees and plants in the Amazon have ever been tested by scientists.
7. The Amazon rainforest contains more than 3,000 fruits. Only 200 of these are consumed in the western world.
8. More than 80% of the world's food has its origins in the Amazon rainforest.
9. One hectare (2.47 acres) of the rainforest can contain more than 750 types of tree, and 1,500 types of plant.
10. The Amazon rain forest is found in nine South yankee countries; Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and the three Guyanas.
11. The rain forest floor is incredibly dark, with less than 1% of the light making it through the canopy of the trees.
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Rainforest Deforestation
12. Due to deforestation, it is estimated we are making more than 137 species extinct every day!
13. Whilst deforestation has slowed in recent years, the Amazon rainforest is still disappearing at a rate of 1.5 acres every second, meaning the Amazon will be completely destroyed within
40 years if deforestation continues at this rate.
14. Around half-hour of our carbon emissions come back from burning the Amazon rain forest.
15. In 2006 geologists studying the speed at which the Amazon carried sediments out to sea found, to their surprise, that the oldest sediments they found were upstream of their source.
They shortly complete that, until the Cretaceous Period, the Amazon actually flowed backward, east to west!
It wasn’t till the range Mountains began their rise one hundred million years agone that the stream reversed course and selected its current direction.
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