5 Facts about the Amazon Rainforest 2022

5 Facts about the Amazon Rainforest in 2022

The Amazon is the world's biggest rainforest, larger than the next two largest rainforests — in the Congo Basin and Indonesia — combined

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The Amazon River once flowed west-ward instead of east-ward as it does today. The rise of the Andes caused it to flow into the Atlantic Ocean.

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The Amazon is estimated to have 16,000 tree species and 390 billion individual trees

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Nearly two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest is found in Brazil.

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Cattle ranching accounts for roughly 70 percent of deforestation in the Amazon.

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