The Amazon Rain Forest in Portuguese – Amazônia (2024)

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What is the Amazon rainforest in Portuguese? ›

One of the “must see” things in Brazil is the Amazon Rain Forest or “a Amazônia” as the locals call it. The term includes the forest and the rivers, but also the local cuisine and traditions.

The Amazon rainforest, also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America.

The Amazon Rainforest Location

The Amazon covers a huge area (6.7 million sq km) of South America. Nearly 60% of the rainforest is in Brazil, while the rest is shared among eight other countries—Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela and French Guiana, an overseas territory of France.

Climate change and deforestation could convert the majority of the Amazon rainforest into savanna, with massive impacts on the world's biodiversity and climate.

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The correct option is D lungs of the planet. The Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world and has a huge diversity of plant life. It is often referred to as the "lungs of the planet" as it produces a considerable amount of the world's oxygen.

The Amazon is an incredibly unique place. It is the world's largest rain forest and river system, and the most biologically diverse place on Earth. It contains millions of species, most of them still undescribed. Both the Amazon's forest and freshwater systems are at risk.

The Amazon rainforest is the world's largest intact forest. It is home to more than 24 million people in Brazil alone, including hundreds of thousands of Indigenous Peoples belonging to 180 different groups.

The Amazon Biome, is defined as the area covered predominantly by dense moist tropical forest, with relatively small inclusions of several other types of vegetation such as savannas, floodplain forests, grasslands, swamps, bamboos, and palm forests.

The Amazon Rainforest, teeming with life and biodiversity, home to millions of species of plants, animals, and insects, was made possible by volcanoes, colliding tectonic plates, the uplift of the Andes, and Ice Ages. The Amazon, then, is hundreds of millions of years in the making.

What type of rainfall occurs in the Amazon? ›

Convectional rainfall is common in the hot and wet tropical rain forests of central Africa, Amazon basin of South America and the islands of south-east Asia. In the late afternoon, the clouds burst into a heavy downpour, often accompanied by thunder and lighting.

Trade winds bring this moist air over land, where mountains force upward air motion, cooling air temperatures further to amplify rainfall. This linkage of transpiration, evaporation, and orographic lifting keeps the rainforest climate constantly wet. These combined factors make rainforests the wettest places on earth.

With enough time and forest losses, scientists say, large swaths of the Amazon could fall into an unstoppable spiral that would transform them from lush rainforest into grassy savanna. The global implications would be profound. The loss of the rainforest would cause a large-scale drying across the region.

Amazon Rainforest, large tropical rainforest occupying the drainage basin of the Amazon River and its tributaries in northern South America and covering an area of 2,300,000 square miles (6,000,000 square km).

To refer to the region we call the Amazon you would say la Amazonía, with or without the accent on the final 'i'. Otherwise, if you want to be more specific and refer to the actual forest, the Amazon rainforest, you would say la selva Amazónica.

With nearly 60% forest cover, Brazil also contains the Earth's largest area of tropical rainforest and two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest. The Brazilian Amazon is home to a wide range of species.