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Amazon Rainforest

Amazon Rainforest Notes

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Manaus The largest city in the Amazon, located at the confluence of the Rio Negro and Solimões River.
Meeting of Waters The phenomenon near Manaus where the blackwater Rio Negro and sandy-colored Solimões River flow side-by-side without mixing.
Bodele Depression A region in the Sahara Desert that provides mineral-rich dust to fertilize the Amazon soil via Atlantic winds.
BR-230 The Trans-Amazonian Highway, a massive road project that remains largely unpaved and controversial for its role in deforestation.
Chico Mendes The environmental activist and rubber tapper known as the "Gandhi of the Amazon" who was assassinated in 1988.
Marajo Island The world's largest fluvial (river) island, located at the mouth of the Amazon River in the state of Para.
Yasuni National Park A national park in the Ecuadorian Amazon known as one of the most biodiverse places on Earth.
Lost City of Z The name given by Percy Fawcett to an ancient civilization he believed existed in the Mato Grosso region.
Mato Grosso The Brazilian state south of the main rainforest that contains both Amazon jungle and the Pantanal wetlands.
Para The Brazilian state home to the city of Belém and the site of significant clear-cutting for soy and cattle.
Blackwater River A type of river, like the Rio Negro, that is slow-moving and stained dark by decaying vegetation and tannins.
Percy Harrison Fawcett The British explorer who disappeared in 1925 while searching for an ancient lost city in the Amazon.
Correntão A destructive deforestation practice where a massive chain is pulled between two tractors to clear land.
Manu National Park A UNESCO World Heritage site in Peru that contains a massive variety of species, including 1,300 butterfly types.
Anacondas The world's heaviest snakes, which are apex predators found throughout the Amazon basin.
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