![]() According to the researcher Michael Hopkins the real number of plants of Amazonia is three times more species than has been discovered so far. This region is one of the least-studied tropical regions on the planet and many species of flora and fauna are still unknown to scientists. Some experts estimate that one square kilometer (247 acres) may contain 150,000 species of plants including 75,000 types of trees. This constitutes the largest collection of living plants and animal species. The Amazonian rainforests have unparalleled biodiversity! One in ten known species in the world lives in the Amazon Rainforest. ![]() There are many endemic flora and fauna here that you can see only in this part of the world. The Amazon jungle has a unique ecosystem. They could not only cross the impassable jungles finding food with difficulties, but also withstand numerous unknown tropical diseases! ![]() However, the route of Francisco de Orellana and his group still boggles the mind, because these places are difficult to pass and wild even today. Most probably, they encountered women fighting together with men and the rest of the story was the misunderstanding between the Spanish and Indians. The modern researchers don’t believe the evidence of Francisco de Orellana and his companions about the existence of the tribe of warrior women – amazons. A long and difficult path brought them to the Atlantic Ocean.įrancisco de Orellana not only discovered this magnificent river for Europeans, but also named it for women warriors they encountered after months of sailing downriver. After a number of hardships Orellana left the expedition and moved downstream in the discovered river. He joined the expedition of Gonzalo Pizarro to explore the area east of from occupied Peru – towards the equator. The first Europeans to descend the Amazon River from lowlands of the Andes to the Atlantic Ocean was the Spanish conquistador Francisco de Orellana. The Amazon River and its tributaries gather water from the territory of 9 countries: Peru, Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana. It accounts for approximately one-fifth of the world's total river flow. The life force of the rainforest is the Amazon River – the largest river in the world by waterflow. This is the world's largest tropical rainforest, representing over half of the planet's remaining rainforests. It encompasses seven million square kilometers (1.7 billion acres), of which five and a half million square kilometers (1.4 billion acres) are covered by the rainforest (Amazon jungles). Amazon Basin is the biggest lowlands on Earth.
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