Amazon rainforest

The Amazon rainforest, alternatively, the Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a rainforest. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations together with 3,344 formally acknowledged indigenous territories.

The majority of the forest is contained within Brazil, with 60% of the rainforest, followed by Peru with 13%, Colombia with 10%, together with with minor amounts in Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Four nations pretend "Amazonas" as the produce of one of their first-level administrative regions, and France uses the name "Guiana Amazonian Park" for its rainforest protected area. The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests, and comprises the largest and nearly biodiverse tract of tropical rainforest in the world, with an estimated 390 billion individual trees divided up into 16,000 species.

More than 30 million people of 350 different ethnic groups equal in the Amazon, which are subdivided into 9 different national political systems and 3,344 formally acknowledged indigenous territories. Indigenous peoples symbolize 9% of the total population with 60 of the groups remaining largely isolated.

Etymology

The name Amazon is said to arise from a war Francisco de Orellana fought with the Tapuyas and other tribes. The women of the tribe fought alongside the men, as was their custom. Orellana derived the name Amazonas from the Amazons of Greek mythology, intended by Herodotus and Diodorus.