Amazing Fact about the Flying River: Amazon Forest
The Amazon rainforest sometimes referred to as Amazonia or Amazon Jungle, is a home to approximately 390 billion trees and also home to 30 million people shared among 350 ethnic groups.
The Amazon flying river, which is also known as atmospheric river are formed over the forest caused by the warm temperature of the forest. It circulate water and weather patterns around the globe. The rainforest is 7,000,000 km squared and 5,500,000 km squared of the forest is covered by approximately 390 billion tress sparse into thousands of species.
The Amazon basin is bordered by 9 countries. Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Columbia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and Ecuador.
58.4% of the rainforest is contained within the borders of Brazil. And the other 8 countries has Peru with 12.8%, Bolivia with 7.7%, Colombia with 7.1%, Venezuela with 6.1%, Guiana with 3.1%, Suriname with 2.5%, French Guiana with 1.4%, and Ecuador with 1%.
Is the Amazon forest bigger than USA?
The Amazonian forest is far larger than EU European Union and more than half of the USA (United State of America).
How Africa feed the Amazon
The billions of trees at the Amazon Forest most have a source of nutrients that kept it flourishing for so long.
A source of nutrient that will fertilize a biome of that nature must be an amazing phenomenon of it kind.
Satellite images shows that, large amount of dust from the Sahara reaches the Amazon. The dust contains micronutrients that helps fertilize the rain forest.
Interesting Facts about the Amazon Forest
Amazon is the biggest rainforest. Bigger than Congo and Indonesia basin combined.
The amazon rain forest is termed as the lungs of the Earth. It helps the whole planet breath:
Amazon is the largest, most diverse tropical rainforest on Earth:
The Amazon forest get it major nutrients from the Sahara in Africa:
It is estimated that the forest has 40,000 plant species, 3,000 types of fish, 1,300 bird species, 430 mammals, and 2.5 million different kinds of insects.
The river used to run backward some million years ago according to a geological survey in 2006.
A lot of our medicines comes from the forest. The thousands of plant species provide great source for our medicine. Only (1) one percent of the species are tapped.
The forest is banishing at an alarming rate. 30% of global carbon emissions is caused by Deforestation in the amazon. Clearing bush for cattle and paper factories.
When you are squeezing that sheet of paper, know that a tree was down before you will do that.
first published at www.awarehow.com