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The Amazon: Then

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The Amazon rainforest is a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. The basin is 2,700,00 square miles, of which 2,100,000 square miles are covered by the rainforest. The region includes territories belonging to nine different nations which are Brazil, Peru, Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. The Amazon constitutes around half of the planet’s remaining rainforests and is the most biodiverse tract of tropical rainforest in the world. The Amazon rainforest also has the greatest biodiversity with one in ten species in the world living in it.