20% of the Earth's oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest.
The Amazon represents more than half of the Earth's rainforests.
During the past 40 years, at least 20%of the Amazon rainforest has been cutdown.
The Amazon rainforest encompasses an area of 5,500,000 sq kilometres (2,100,000 sq mi), two times the size of Argentina.
The name "Amazon" comes from the "Amazons" of Greek mythology, a race of woman warriors. In many tribes of the area, women fought alongside the men.
Sand from the Sahara is blown by the wind all the way to the Amazon, recharging its minerals. The desert literally fertilizes the rainforest.
Human inhabitantsfirst settled in the Amazon rainforest at least 11,200 yearsago.
The Amazon rainforest has been in existence for at least 55 million years.
1 in 10 known species in the world lives in the Amazon Rainforest.
There are no bridges over the Amazon River.
The Amazon River once flowedin the opposite direction, from east to west.
Almost four hundred billion trees belonging to 16,000 different species grow in the Amazon rainforest.
Amazonian Butterflies Drink Turtle Tears.
While most of the Amazon rainforest is in Brazil (60%), it's also in Peru (13%), Colombia (10%), Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and three countries.
There's an underground river 4 KM (2.4 mi) beneath the AmazonRiver in Brazil, that might be as long, but hundreds of times wider.
In 2008, Norway donated US$1 billion to help save the Amazonrainforest.
The Amazon River discharges 5 times as much water as any other river on the planet.
The Amazon Rainforest is home to about 2.5 million insect species.
Over 40,000 plant species, 2,200 fishes, 1,200 birds, 420 mammals, 420 amphibians, and 370 reptiles have been scientifically classified in the Amazonregion.
Iquitos, Peru is the largest city in the world inaccessible by road. It's located deep in the Amazon rainforest and has over 400,000 people.
A study in 1999 found 1 sq kilometer (247 acres) of Amazon rainforest can contain about 90,790 tonnes of living plants.
As many as 60 tribes remain largely uncontacted in the Amazon, or live in voluntary isolation.