see...pink dolphins!
The Amazon Rainforest is a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon basin of South America. The area, also known as Amazonia or the Amazon Basin, encompasses seven million square kilometers (1.2 billion acres), though the forest itself occupies some 5.5 million square kilometers, located within nine nations: Brazil (with 60 percent of the rainforest), Columbia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guina. States or departments in four nations bear the name Amazonas after it. The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests and comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical rainforest in the world.
The Amazon River or River Amazon of South America is the largest river in the world by volume, with a total river flow greater than the next top ten largest rivers flowing into the ocean combined.
The Amazon River accounts for approximately 1/5 of total world's river flow, and it has the largest drainage basin in the world. There is an ongoing dispute regarding it's length and along with the Nile it is one of the contenders for the position as the longest river in the world. Because of its vast dimensions, it is sometimes called The River Sea (o rio-mar in Portuguese), and at no point is it crossed by bridges.
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i still don't understand how dolphins live in a river, regardless of what colour. yes, you can hit me over my stupid head with a saucepan, and say something like:but the rivers are so big, they're sometimes called seas. or: they live where the river meets the sea." or something. anyway. pretty place.
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