History UsefulNotes / TheAmazonRainforest

The Amazon rainforest, localized in the north of UsefulNotes/SouthAmerica, is the biggest rainforest in the world, with more than 6 million km[[superscript:2]] or 3,700 million miles of extension, considered to be the place with more biological diversity of the planet. Its ecosystems revolve around the Amazon River watershed, the biggest river in the world in volume, which is born at the Andes in Peru and flows into the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil. The river is also called Uicaiali, Urubamba and Marañón, and also receives the name of Solimões in Brazil before it meets the Negro River in the state of Amazonas. Aside from the Amazon River, other important waterways are some of its tributarians, like the Negro, Tapajós, Xingu, Pastaza, Huallaga, Javari, Içá and Madeira Rivers.

See also the UsefulNotes/PacificNorthwest for the temperate rainforest at eastern North America. It isn't related to the Amazon warriors from Myth/ClassicalMythology and the AmazonBrigade, AmazonianBeauty, NoGuyWantsAnAmazon, AllAmazonsWantHercules and AmazonChaser tropes, though, curiously, the name of the forest possibly is: reportedly, the name of the Amazon River (and by extension, the region) was chosen when Spanish explorer UsefulNotes/FranciscoDeOrellana's expedition was attacked by a native tribe led by women, which reminded him of the legendary Greek warriors.

See also the UsefulNotes/PacificNorthwest for the temperate rainforest at eastern North America. It isn't related to the Amazon warriors from Myth/ClassicalMythology and the AmazonBrigade, AmazonianBeauty, NoGuyWantsAnAmazon, AllAmazonsWantHercules and AmazonChaser tropes, though, curiously, the name of the forest possibly is: reportedly, the name of the Amazon River (and by extension, the region) was chosen when Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana's expedition was attacked by a native tribe led by women, which reminded him of the legendary Greek warriors.

This tropical rainforest covers most of the Amazon basin in South America, mostly composed by plains, plateaus and depressions. About 60% of the rainforest is in UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}, along with 13% in UsefulNotes/{{Peru}}, 10% in UsefulNotes/{{Colombia}}, and smaller portions in other countries, such as UsefulNotes/{{Ecuador}}, UsefulNotes/{{Bolivia}}, UsefulNotes/{{Guyana}}, UsefulNotes/{{Suriname}} and UsefulNotes/{{Venezuela}}, including the Guiana Amazonian Park in UsefulNotes/FrenchGuiana. Several species of piranhas, insects, jaguars, macaws, capybaras, manatees, river dolphins, anacondas, primates of several kinds, toucans and electric eels are among the most well known animals that can be found in the region, and the local fauna is much more diverse than that (to the point that a full list of known species would be much longer than the rest of the article's text), with millions of plant species being found there as well. Its climate is predomantly humid equatorial, with high air humidity and lots of rain -- between 1500 and 3600 mm per year, or about 60 and 142 inches.

The forest is the subject of several stereotypes across media. Despite what it may seem from some works, the Amazon has several modern cities and well-developed economic centers, such as the Manaus free trade zone in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. While the demographic concentration is indeed very low, especially compared to other South American regions, it still has more than 38 million people, a portion of those indigenous populations — both in cities and other communities and in reserves — who have lived in the place for thousands of years.\\
Another information is how the Amazonian soil is actually really poor in nutrients and bad for agriculture; the reason why the forest thrives is because it recycles its own nutrients through the decomposition of organic matter on the surface of the forest floor and rivers, such as fallen leaves, twigs, excrement, dead animals and plants and others. This makes the deforestation a bigger problem, since without the organic matter for the forest to reutilize, it gets harder to reforest the biome once the rain leaches away the plant litter and important nutrients such as nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus from the soil, not to mention the exposure to erosion. The exception is the "Terra Preta" (black soil in Portuguese), a type of highly fertile soil found through the Amazon basin which, according to more recent theories, was artificially and intentionally created by Indigenous UsefulNotes/PreColumbianCivilizations using organic matter, ashes, charcoal, pottery etc. in order to improve the fertility and help agriculture.

This doesn't mean in any way, however, that this forest isn't a true blessing for the planet in several other ways: besides the vast economical and medical importance it has for us, the Amazon also launches countless liters of water into the atmosphere everyday through the evapotranspiration of the plants, which is fundamental to the equilibrium of global ecosystem, climate and the water cycle. If it weren't for the so called "flying rivers" produced by the Amazon, several climates in South America would be much more arid, if not desertic, and many important rivers would dry up; The Brazilian Southeast, for example, would most likely be irreversibly dry and arid if the Amazon were deforested, akin to other regions from the same latitude, like the Namibian desert. Thus, while the Amazon may not be the world's oxygen producer, it is certainly its climate regulator.

* In ''Film/LeJaguar'', Wanu, a shaman from the rainforest (and a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoni_Metuktire Raoni Metuktire]]) visits Paris for a public relations campaign to raise awarereness about the rainforest and the theft of his tribe's lands along with Campana, a French ethnologist. When the shaman's soul is apparently stolen, Campana enlists the help of a good-for-nothing named Perrin, with whom he spontaneously created a spiritual link, and they both go to the forest in Brazil to save Wanu's soul and his people's lands, which are confiscated by .

Another common misconception is the belief that the Amazon is the world's lungs, in reference to how its plants constantly produce oxygen gas through photosynthesis. While it is true that the rainforest produces enormous amounts of oxygen, it is now known that it also consumes all of that very same oxygen when breathing through cellular respiration, since, as a mature forest, the jungle is on the photic compensation point; it is, the amount of oxygen produced and used by the vegetation is almost the same [[note]]Reforesting and planting new trees, however, still very much liberates oxygen and takes CO[[subscript:2]] off the atmosphere, since, during their growth, trees are capable of capturing tons of carbon dyoxide and transforming them into biomass; depending on the species, these plants can absorb carbon through decades until they reach adulthood, greatly helping in reducing global warming[[/note]]. The true main producers of oxygen gas in the world are the phytoplankton in the ocean, who are not on the compensation point and liberate more O[[subscript:2]] than they use due to many factors. This doesn't mean in any way, however, that this forest isn't a true blessing for the planet in several other ways: besides the vast economical and medical importance it has for us, the Amazon also launches countless liters of water into the atmosphere everyday through the evapotranspiration of the plants, which is fundamental to the equilibrium of global ecosystem, climate and the water cycle. If it weren't for the so called "flying rivers" produced by the Amazon, several climates in South America would be much more arid, if not desertic, and many important rivers would dry up; The Brazilian Southeast, for example, would most likely be irreversibly dry and arid if the Amazon were deforested, akin to other regions from the same latitude, like the Namibian desert. Thus, while the Amazon may not be the world's oxygen producer, it is certainly its climate regulator.

Another information is how the Amazonian soil is actually really poor in nutrients and bad for agriculture; the reason why the forest thrives is because it recycles its own nutrients through the decomposition of organic matter on the surface of the forest floor and rivers, such as fallen leaves, twigs, excrement, dead animals and plants and others. This makes the deforestation a bigger problem, since without the organic matter for the forest to reutilize, it gets harder to reforest the biome once the rain leaches away the plant litter and important nutrients such as nitrogen, sulfur and phosphor from the soil, not to mention the exposion to erosion. The exception is the "Terra Preta" (black soil in Portuguese), a type of highly fertile soil found through the Amazon basin which, according to more recent theories, was artificially and intentionally created by Indigenous UsefulNotes/PreColumbianCivilizations using organic matter, ashes, charcoal, pottery etc. in order to improve the fertility and help agriculture.

This tropical rainforest covers most of the Amazon basin in South America, mostly composed by plains, plateaus and depressions. 60% of the rainforest is in UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}, along with 13% in UsefulNotes/{{Peru}}, 10% in UsefulNotes/{{Colombia}}, and smaller portions in other countries, such as UsefulNotes/{{Ecuador}}, UsefulNotes/{{Bolivia}}, UsefulNotes/{{Guyana}}, UsefulNotes/{{Suriname}} and UsefulNotes/{{Venezuela}}, including the Guiana Amazonian Park in UsefulNotes/FrenchGuiana. Several species of piranhas, insects, jaguars, macaws, capybaras, manatees, river dolphins, anacondas, primates of several kinds, toucans and electric eels are among the most well known animals that can be found in the region, and the local fauna is much more diverse than that (to the point that a full list of known species would be much longer than the rest of the article's text), with millions of plant species being found there as well. Its climate is predomantly humid equatorial, with high air humidity and lots of rain -- between 1500 and 3600 mm per year, or about 60 and 142 inches.

Another information is how the Amazonian soil is actually really poor in nutrients and bad for agriculture; the reason why the forest thrives is because it recycles its own nutrients through the decomposition of organic matter on the surface of the forest floor and rivers, such as fallen leaves, twigs, excrement, dead animals and plants and others. This makes the deforestation a bigger problem, since without the organic matter for the forest to reutilize, it gets harder to reforest the biome once the rain leaches away the plant litter from the soil, not to mention the exposion to erosion. The exception is the "Terra Preta" (black soil in Portuguese), a type of highly fertile soil found through the Amazon basin which, according to more recent theories, was artificially and intentionally created by Indigenous UsefulNotes/PreColumbianCivilizations using organic matter, ashes, charcoal, pottery etc. in order to improve the fertility and help agriculture.

See also the UsefulNotes/PacificNorthwest for the temperate rainforest at eastern North America. It isn't related to the Amazon warriors from Myth/ClassicalMythology and the AmazonBrigade, AmazonianBeauty, NoGuyWantsAnAmazon, and AmazonChaser tropes, though, curiously, the name of the forest possibly is: reportedly, the name of the Amazon River (and by extension, the region) was chosen when Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana's expedition was attacked by a native tribe led by women, which reminded him of the legendary Greek warriors.

Another information is how the Amazonian soil is actually very low in nutrients and bad for agriculture; the reason why the forest thrives is because it recycles its own nutrients through the decomposition of organic matter on the surface of the forest floor and rivers, such as fallen leaves, twigs, excrement, dead animals and plants and others. This makes the deforestation a bigger problem, since without the organic matter for the forest to reutilize, it gets harder to reforest the biome once the soil is left without plant litter, not to mention the exposion to erosion. The exception is the "Terra Preta" (black soil in Portuguese), a type of highly fertile soil found through the Amazon basin which, according to more recent theories, was artificially and intentionally created by Indigenous UsefulNotes/PreColumbianCivilizations using organic matter, ashes, charcoal, pottery etc. in order to improve the fertility and help agriculture.

The Amazon rainforest, localized in the north of UsefulNotes/SouthAmerica, is the biggest rainforest in the world, with more than 6 million km[[superscript:2]] or 3,700 million miles of extension, considered to be the place with more biological diversity of the planet. Its ecossystems revolve around the Amazon River watershed, the biggest river in the world in volume, which is born at the Andes in Peru and flows into the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil. The river is also called Uicaiali, Urubamba and Marañón, and also receives the name of Solimões in Brazil before it meets the Negro River in the state of Amazonas. Aside from the Amazon River, other important waterways are some of its tributarians, like the Negro, Tapajós, Xingu, Pastaza, Huallaga, Javari, Içá and Madeira Rivers.

This tropical rainforest covers most of the Amazon basin in South America, mostly composed by plains, plateaus and depressions. 60% of the rainforest is in UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}, along with 13% in UsefulNotes/{{Peru}}, 10% in UsefulNotes/{{Colombia}}, and smaller portions in other countries, such as UsefulNotes/{{Ecuador}}, UsefulNotes/{{Bolivia}}, UsefulNotes/{{Guyana}}, UsefulNotes/{{Suriname}} and UsefulNotes/{{Venezuela}}, including the Guiana Amazonian Park in UsefulNotes/FrenchGuiana. Several species of piranhas, insects, jaguars, macaws, capybaras, manatees, river dolphins, anacondas, primates of several kinds, toucans and electric eels are among the most well known animals that can be found in the region, the local fauna is much more diverse than that (to the point that a full list of known species would be much longer than the rest of the article's text), and millions of plant species can be found there as well. Its climate is predomantly humid equatorial, with high air humidity and lots of rain -- between 1500 and 3600 mm per year, or about 60 and 142 inches.

Another common misconception is the belief that the Amazon is the world's lungs, in reference to how its plants constantly produce oxygen gas through photosynthesis. While it is true that the rainforest produces enormous amounts of oxygen, it is now known that it also consumes that very same oxygen when breathing through cellular respiration, since, as a mature forest, the jungle is on the photic compensation point; it is, the amount of oxygen produced and used by the vegetation is almost the same [[note]]Reforesting and planting new trees, however, still very much liberates oxygen and takes CO[[subscript:2]] off the atmosphere, since, during their growth, trees are capable of capturing tons of carbon dyoxide and transforming them into biomass; depending on the species, these plants can absorb carbon through decades until they reach adulthood, greatly helping in reducing global warming[[/note]]. The true main producers of oxygen gas in the world are the phytoplankton in the ocean, who are not on the compensation point and liberate more O[[subscript:2]] than they use due to many factors. This doesn't mean in any way, however, that this forest isn't a true blessing for the planet in several other ways: besides the vast economical and medical importance it has for us, the Amazon also launches countless liters of water into the atmosphere everyday through the evapotranspiration of the plants, which is fundamental to the equilibrium of global ecosystem, climate and the water cycle. If it weren't for the so called "flying rivers" produced by the Amazon, several climates in South America would be much more arid, if not desertic, and many important rivers would dry up; The Brazilian Southeast, for example, would most likely be irreversibly dry and arid if the Amazon were deforested, akin to other regions from the same latitude, like the Namibian desert. Thus, while the Amazon may not be the world's oxygen producer, it is certainly its climate regulator.

Another common misconception is the belief that the Amazon is the world's lungs, in reference to how its plants constantly produce oxygen gas through photosynthesis. While it is true that the rainforest produces enormous amounts of oxygen, it is now known that it also consumes that very same oxygen when breathing through cellular respiration, since, as a mature forest, the jungle is on the photic compensation point; it is, the amount of oxygen produced and used by the vegetation is almost the same [[note]]Reforesting and planting new trees, however, still very much liberates oxygen and takes CO[[subscript:2]] off the atmosphere, since, during their growth, trees are capable of capturing tons of carbon dyoxide and transforming them into biomass; depending on the species, these plants can absorb carbon through decades until they reach adulthood, greatly helping in reducing global warming[[/note]]. The true main producers of oxygen gas in the world are the phytoplankton in the ocean, who are not on the compensation point and liberate more O[[subscript:2]] than they use due to many factors. This doesn't mean in any way, however, that this forest isn't a true blessing for the planet in several other ways: besides the vast economical and medical importance it has for us, the Amazon also launches countless liters of water into the atmosphere everyday through the evapotranspiration of the plants, which is fundamental to the equilibrium of global ecossystem, climate and the water cycle. If it weren't for the so called "flying rivers" produced by the Amazon, several climates in South America would be much more arid, if not desertic, and many important rivers would dry up; Brazilian Southeast, for example, would most likely be irreversibly dry and arid if the Amazon were deforested, akin to other regions from the same latitude, like the Namibian desert. Thus, while the Amazon may not be the world's oxygen producer, it is certainly its climate regulator.

Featured in several media, it is a popular setting for a GreenAesop about preserving the rainforests, influenced by the deforestation that has unfortunately occurred in real life. Another common feature is that [[ArtisticLicenseGeography it is either depicted as if it were contained entirely within Brazil, or extending to places where it does not actually stretch to; like Lima and the northernmost parts of Colombia (Atlántico), the whole Brazilian territory instead of just its Northern region, and sometimes even into central America]], to the point that it seems writers think the Amazon is just a synonym for "South American rainforest", and not a particular region thereof.

See also the UsefulNotes/PacificNorthwest for the temperate rainforest at eastern North America. It isn't related to the amazon warriors from Myth/ClassicalMythology and the AmazonBrigade, AmazonianBeauty, NoGuyWantsAnAmazon, and AmazonChaser tropes, though, curiously, the name of the forest possibly is: reportedly, the name of the Amazon River (and by extension, the region) was chosen when Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana's expedition was attacked by a native tribe led by women, which reminded him of the legendary greek warriors.

* The home turf of ComicBook/RimaTheJungleGirl, both in her own title and ''ComicBook/{{First Wave|DCComics}}''.
* In ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'' #10, Indy must journey into the Amazon to retrieve the idol he obtained at the start of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' after it is stolen. Standard Indy hijinks ensue.

* The sidestory "Shadows of the Jungle" of ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' takes place in Guyana, following an expedition trying to find Mew. As it's a HalloweenEpisode, [[HungryJungle it's not at all pleasant.]]

* ''Film/{{Anaconda}}'': Despite its authentic Portuguese cursing ("filho da..."), infamous for its upward waterfall -- although it could be an optical illusion. However, the whole waterfall thing is a crock, just as in...

* ''Film/TheDancerUpstairs'' with Creator/JohnMalkovich extends the Amazon to ''Lima''...
* Loompaland, from the 2005 version of ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', is in the Amazon. [[FridgeLogic Because it has cacao beans.]] (Cacao trees are widely distributed from South America to Mexico -- in fact chocolate was invented by the Aztecs -- although the trope definition may encompass other rainforests.)
* ''Film/MedicineMan'' is set in the Amazon basin, and is more accurate than many portrayals.
* In ''Film/{{Jungle}}'', Yossi is separated from Kevin on their journey down the Tuichi River in Boliva and he spends three weeks lost in the Amazon rainforest. A very accurate portrayal (as might be expected [[BasedOnATrueStory given its source material]]) and shot with [[CaliforniaDoubling Colombia doubling for Bolivia]].
* ''Film/JungleCruise'' starts [[BookEnds and ends]] in London, but the majority takes place on the Amazon River.

+ The ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'' wind up here in “The Forgotten”. They morph Jaguars and monkeys and get chased by Visser Three. There’s also a native boy with a poison-tipped spear. It ended up getting wiped from the memory of all but Jake, though, as it was a sario rip, a spacetime distortion type of thing.

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'', whenever they wanted to do a rainforest episode. Had the benefit of being fairly accurate with respect to native flora and fauna, partly because a show that represents the early 90's environmentalist craze wouldn't make sense without these accuracies, at the drawback of being very condescending towards native peoples
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' episode "Dr. Guymn, Medicine Woman", featured an orangutan and circumcision among the native peoples. Both are, of course, characteristic of Australasia.

This tropical rainforest covers most of the Amazon basin in South America, mostly composed by plains, plateaus and depressions. 60% of the rainforest is in UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}, along with 13% in UsefulNotes/{{Peru}}, 10% in UsefulNotes/{{Colombia}}, and smaller portions in other countries, such as UsefulNotes/{{Ecuador}}, UsefulNotes/{{Bolivia}}, UsefulNotes/{{Guyana}}, UsefulNotes/{{Suriname}} and UsefulNotes/{{Venezuela}}, including the Guiana Amazonian Park in UsefulNotes/FrenchGuiana. Several species of piranhas, jaguars, macaws, capybaras, manatees, amazonian river dolphins, anacondas, primates of several kinds, toucans and electric eels are among the most well known animals that can be found in the region, the local fauna is much more diverse than that (to the point that a full list of known species would be much longer than the rest of the article's text), and millions of plant species can be found there as well. Its climate is predomantly humid equatorial, with high air humidity and lots of rain -- between 1500 and 3600 mm per year, or about 60 and 142 inches.

The forest is the subject of several stereotypes across media. Despite what it may seem from some works, the Amazon has several modern cities and well-developed economic centers, such as the Manaus free trade zone in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. While the demographic concentration is indeed very low, especially compared to other South American regions, it still has more than 38 million people, a portion of those indigenous populations in reserves who have lived in the place for thousands of years.\\
Another information is how the Amazonian soil is actually very low in nutrients and bad for agriculture; the reason why the forest thrives is because it recycles its own nutrients through the decomposition of organic matter on the surface of the forest floor and rivers, such as fallen leaves, twigs, excrement, dead animals and plants and others. This makes the deforestation a bigger problem, since without the organic matter for the forest to reutilize, it gets harder to reforest the biome once the soil is left without plant litter, besides being exposed to erosion. The exception is the "Terra Preta" (black soil in Portuguese), a type of highly fertile soil found through the Amazon basin which, according to more recent theories, was artificially and intentionally created by Indigenous UsefulNotes/PreColumbianCivilizations using organic matter, ashes, charcoal, pottery etc. in order to improve the fertility and help agriculture.

Another common misconception is the belief that the Amazon is the world's lungs, in reference to how its plants constantly produce oxygen gas through photosynthesis. While it is true that the rainforest produces enormous amounts of oxygen, it is now known that it also consumes that very same oxygen when breathing through cellular respiration, since, as a mature forest, the jungle is on the photic compensation point; it is, the amount of oxygen produced and used by the vegetation is almost the same (and even if the Amazon wasn't on that point, the amount of oxygen released would still be a small fraction)[[note]]Planting trees, however, still very much takes CO[[subscript:2]] off the atmosphere, since, during their growth, trees are capable of capturing tons of carbon dyoxide and turning them into biomass; depending on the species, these plants can absorb carbon through decades until they reach adulthood[[/note]]. The true main producers of oxygen gas in the world are the phytoplankton in the ocean, who are not on the compensation point and liberate more O[[subscript:2]] than they use due to many factors. This doesn't mean in any way, however, that this forest isn't extremely important for the planet in several other ways: besides the vast economical and medical importance it has for us, the Amazon also launches countless liters of water into the atmosphere everyday through the evapotranspiration of the plants, which is fundamental to the equilibrium of global ecossystem, climate and the water cycle. If it weren't for the so called "flying rivers" produced by the Amazon, several climates in South America would be much more arid, if not desertic, and many important rivers would dry up; Brazilian Southeast, for example, would most likely be irreversibly dry and arid if the Amazon were deforested, akin to other regions from the same latitude, like the Namibian desert. Thus, while the Amazon isn't the world's oxygen producer, it is its cilmate regulator.

Another information is how the Amazonian soil is actually very low in nutrients and really bad for agriculture; the reason why the forest thrives is because it recycles its own nutrients through the decomposition of organic matter on the surface of the forest floor and rivers, such as fallen leaves, twigs, excrement, dead animals and plants and others. This makes the deforestation a bigger problem, since without the organic matter for the forest to reutilize, it gets harder to reforest the biome once the soil is left without plant litter, besides being exposed to erosion. The exception is the "Terra Preta" (black soil in Portuguese), a type of highly fertile soil found through the Amazon basin which, according to more recent theories, was artificially and intentionally created by Indigenous UsefulNotes/PreColumbianCivilizations using organic matter, ashes, charcoal, pottery etc. in order to improve the fertility and help agriculture.

Another common misconception is the belief that the Amazon is the world's lungs, in reference to how its plants constantly produce oxygen gas through photosynthesis. While it is true that the rainforest produces enormous amounts of oxygen, it is now known that it also consumes that very same oxygen when breathing through cellular respiration, since, as a mature forest, the jungle is on the photic compensation point; it is, the amount of oxygen produced and used by the vegetation is almost the same (and even if the Amazon wasn't on that point, the amount of oxygen released would still be a small fraction). The true main producers of oxygen gas in the world are the phytoplankton in the ocean, who are not on the compensation point and liberate more O[[subscript:2]] than they use. This doesn't mean in any way, however, that this forest isn't extremely important for the planet in several other ways: besides the vast economical and medical importance it has for us, the Amazon also launches countless liters of water into the atmosphere everyday through the evapotranspiration of the plants, which is fundamental to the equilibrium of global ecossystem, climate and the water cycle. If it weren't for the so called "flying rivers" produced by the Amazon, several climates in South America would be much more arid, if not desertic, and many important rivers would dry up; Brazilian Southeast, for example, would most likely be irreversibly dry and arid if the Amazon were deforested, akin to other regions from the same latitude, like the Namibian desert.

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A huge rainforest, with big trees, plants all around, a bunch of insects and, of course, a river (whose inhabitants include [[PiranhaProblem piranhas]] and [[PsychoElectricEel electric eels]]). That's the basic concept.

This tropical rainforest covers most of the Amazon basin in South America. 60% of the rainforest is in Brazil, along with 13% in Peru, 10% in Colombia, and smaller portions in other countries, including the Guiana Amazonian Park in French Guiana. While piranhas and electric eels are among the most well known animal species in the region, the local fauna is significantly more diverse than that (to the point that a full list of known species would be longer than the rest of the article's text), and thousands of plant species can be found there as well.

When it comes to fiction, thorough research can't always be expected from the writers. If you're lucky, the writers won't put [[MisplacedWildlife a lion in the middle of Peru's eastern side]]. Some really well-worked settings will even include a native language. Again, if you're really lucky, it will be a ''real'' native language.

Featured in any other media than the {{movies}}, it is the most popular setting for a GreenAesop about preserving the rainforests, influenced by the deforestation that has occurred in real life. Another common feature is that [[ArtisticLicenseGeography it is either depicted as if it were contained entirely within Brazil, or extending to places where it does not actually stretch to; like Lima and the northernmost parts of Colombia (Atlántico), and sometimes even into central America]], to the point that it seems writers think the Amazon is just a synonym for "South American rainforest", and not a particular region thereof.

!!Examples:

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* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Rainforest Schmainforest" features a parody of this, and the final SpoofAesop is "stop the rain forest before it's too late". Although subverted in that it takes place in Costa Rica as opposed to South America.

Not to be confused with the [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon women]] [[AmazonChaser warriors]] of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek myth]], the AmazonianBeauty, or even [[AmazonBrigade a brigade]] (or [[LadyLand entire society]]) [[AmazonBrigade of them]]. Or [[Creator/{{Amazon}} the website]], for that matter.