The Mystery of the Amazon
Located in South America, the Amazon is the largest forest in the world. The Amazon River is the lifeblood of the Amazon Forest. The Great Amazon covers an area of 7 million square kilometers in about nine countries. In terms of size, Amazon is 36 times bigger than Bangladesh. The Amazon is half the amount of rainforest in the world. There are about 39 billion trees of 40,000 species in this forest. The Amazon forest produces 20% of the world's oxygen.
That is why it is called the lungs of the earth. The Amazon forest was created about 50 million years ago in the Eocene era. The emergence of warm and humid climates in the Amazon Basin at that time created the Amazon Forest. The Amazon rainforest covers most of South America. Out of the total area of 60 lakh sq km of this forest, 55 lakh sq km is affected by humid climate. Just as Sundarbans is located between two countries, Bangladesh and India, Amazon is located between 9 countries.
Of these nine countries, 60 percent of the Amazon is in Brazil alone. The remaining 13 percent is in Peru, 10 percent in Colombia and 17 percent in the remaining six (Polygia, Ecuador, Benizlia. Cayana, French Cayana, Suriname) countries.
The animals and plants of the Amazon are as diverse as the size of this forest. Biodiversity The Amazon forest is home to some 40,000 species of trees, 1,300 species of birds, 2 species of fish, and 428 species of mammals, 36 species of reptiles, 427 species of amphibians and 2.5 million species of insects. In addition to their impeccable beauty, many endangered species live in the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon forest is home to leopards, electric eels, carnivorous cats, venomous duckflies and numerous venomous species of snakes. The river that flows through the Amazon rainforest is known as the Amazon River.
The river originates from the summit of Nevadu Mismi in the Andes Mountains of Peru. It is the second longest river in the world. This river holds more water than any other river in the world. About a thousand tributaries join to form the Amazon River. All these tributaries are the lifeblood of the Amazon rainforest. Of the few major rivers, 17 are more than 1,000 miles long. The Amazon River, which flows through the forest, is very important behind the expansion of this forest. These tributaries are described as effective ways to travel through the vast jungle. The Amazon River has traveled 3,000 miles across five countries in South America and flowed into the Atlantic Ocean.
This river drains about a 20 percent of the world's water into the sea. Where the Amazon River joins the ocean, 4.2 million cubic feet of water falls into the ocean every second. During the monsoon season, the amount of water goes up to 70 lakh feet. The Amazon Basin is the world's largest drainage basin covering an area of about 70 million square kilometers. Of these, only the basin in Brazil is larger than any other basin.
Several circular designs can be seen on the chest of the Brazilian Amazon. The designs are still shrouded in mystery. Soilists are working to find the answer to this riddle. It is thought that the designed parts were used as tombs or burials.
Traditionally, the ancient Amazons were the masters of this design. However, no device that could be used to create this design could be found out by research. Evidence suggests that these installations were stamped from twelve hundred to fifteen hundred years ago. Another hot topic in the Amazon is the one that flows through it.
The river is literally very hot. The maximum water temperature of this river can be up to 93 degrees Celsius. Scientists have not yet been able to find the real cause of the river's heat. The locals think it is a special natural force. As a result, they never swim in it. Among the many species of plants in the Amazon, there is a type of water lily called Victoria Amazonia.
It is named after Queen Victoria of England. Lotus leaves can grow up to 3 meters in size. The Amazon tree provides about 20 percent of the world's oxygen as well as received a large amount of carbon dioxide. For this reason, the Amazon is considered the lungs of the world.
But sadly, deforestation is going on in Amazon as well as all over the world. Deforestation is due to make settlement by cutting down trees. Prior to 1960, entry into the Amazon was banned. At that time only ancient methods were used to cultivate the land in the Amazon. The lands of the Amazon remain fertile for a short time in a year.
That is why farmers are always looking for new land to clear the forest. Construction of the Trans Amazonia Highway began in 1970. Fortunately, the work was stopped as a threat to Amazon.
Even then, by 1990, 4 lakh square kilometers of the Amazon's forest had been destroyed. The amount of deforestation in the Amazon in 2000 was 5 lakh 87 thousand square kilometers. Due to unplanned deforestation, environmentalists predict that the Amazon could disappear in the next 50 years. The rapid deforestation of the Amazon is having a global warming and adverse effect.
The human race's relationship with the Amazon forest is quite old. Most of the people living in the Amazon settled in the riverside areas. They chose accommodation based on transportation, fishing and land fertility.
In the past, the people who lived in the Amazon rainforest were divided into different societies based on conventional beliefs and performance. Even today, 20 million indigenous people of different races live in the Amazon rainforest. The arrival of Europeans in the Amazon in the sixteenth century reduced the number of Amazonians.
Studies show that 11.8 percent of the Amazon's population is using it, but their habitat was not causing much damage to biodiversity. But since the arrival of the Europeans in the Amazon, the biodiversity of the forest has been on the rise.
Currently, the Amazon forest is home to 400 to 500 Amerindian. It is thought that at least 50 of these indigenous ethnic groups have no resemblance to any other civil society in the world.
In Africa also have some indigenous peoples in the jungles who do not want to have any contact with the whole world like these people in the Amazon rainforest.
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