Amazon River Basin

The Amazon River The Amazon is one of the largest rivers of the world and the chief river of the South America. It is 4,000 miles long, about 6,400 km. It is the second largest river in the world's and the flow is the world largest by far. It is also one of the deepest rivers. The Amazon River begins at Huarco. The Amazon system is joined to the Orinoco by the Casiquaire River in Venezeula. The …

…richness in both animal and plant species, contributed a wealth of resources for the survival and well-being of man. In 1950, 15% of the earth's land surface was covered by rainforest. Today, more than half has already gone up in smoke. A century ago, half of India and a third of Ethiopia were covered by forest, now almost all of the forest are gone. See this is a major strike in the Amazon, it is slowly decreasing.