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title: "Amazon Rainforest (South America)"  
description: "Amazon Rainforest (South America) Amazon Rainforest (South America)"  
author: "Yogendra  Mohan"  
published: 2026-05-07  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/5171/amazon-rainforest-south-america  
category: "nature"  
tags: ["Amazon Rainforest (South America)"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Amazon Rainforest (South America)

![Amazon Rainforest South America](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/97434f6d-7961-4bb7-9035-64623e8ed235/images/7233fadf-7fb8-477c-898d-20e272282e1d.jpeg) Produces around 20% of the world’s oxygen. ![Amazon Rainforest South America](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/97434f6d-7961-4bb7-9035-64623e8ed235/images/9fb231b6-d1cc-4af5-b06c-fc870de6b47d.jpeg) The Amazon is the world's largest tropical rainforest, covering about 5.5–6.7 million square kilometers (roughly 2.1–2.6 million square miles). ![Amazon Rainforest South America](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/97434f6d-7961-4bb7-9035-64623e8ed235/images/812f2b39-c13a-4447-a611-a17af4457312.jpeg) It harbors around 10% of all known species on Earth, including over 40,000 plant species, 2,200+ fish, 1,300+ birds, 400+ mammals, and millions of ins ![Amazon Rainforest South America](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/97434f6d-7961-4bb7-9035-64623e8ed235/images/95434bed-3a68-4b26-91e8-9509f2fca6c2.jpeg) the largest river system by volume, stretching over 6,800 km. It carries about 20% of the world's freshwater and has more than 1,000 tributaries. ![Amazon Rainforest South America](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/97434f6d-7961-4bb7-9035-64623e8ed235/images/1e50aa3a-1e72-4f78-b933-b5f5fb46958c.jpeg) Billions of Trees The rainforest contains an estimated 390–400 billion individual trees from about 16,000 species. ![Amazon Rainforest South America](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/97434f6d-7961-4bb7-9035-64623e8ed235/images/3d52d912-5823-4895-8341-59c99194d4f3.jpeg) Around 400–500 Indigenous tribes live in the Amazon, with dozens estimated to have no contact with the outside world. ![Amazon Rainforest South America](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/97434f6d-7961-4bb7-9035-64623e8ed235/images/589533db-39f4-464d-957a-019d63cb8178.jpeg) Produces around 20% of the world’s oxygen.

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