4**** Brazil Tours and Travel to The Amazon Rainforest

General Information
Nearly 40% of all the tropcal rainforest left in the world is in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest. It covers about 1/3 of South America and lies across the northern part of Brazil. The Amazon Region has two mountain areas. The Brazilian Highlands is in the south and the Guianna Highlands is in the far north. Brazil's highest mountain is Pico da Neblina. It is 9,888 feet above sea level. The largest city in the Amazon Region is Manaus. Only 7% of Brazil's people live in the rainforest. In the west 160 inches of rain fall each year. In the east 40 to 80 inches of rain falls yearly.

Name of the Amazon River
When the Spanish explorers discovered the river through what is now Brazil in the 1500s, they were attacked by women warriors. The explores remembered a Greek legend about women warriors called Amazons. The explorers named the river after them. The Amazon River flows through the northern part of Brazil and empties into the Atlantic Ocean. The river is 4050 miles long. Its basin covers 2,700,000 square miles.

Climate
There are two seasons: one from November to May, during which it rains practically every day, for various hours, and another from June to October, known as the dry season, when heavy but short periods of rain can fall. The climate of the jungle is essentially characterised by humidity that varies from between 80% to 100%, depending on the seasons, and the temperature, which varies little, is on average about 28†C.

Wildlife
The Amazon Rainforest is home to about 40,000 kinds of trees and plants, 2,000 species of fish, more than 8,000 insect species, more than 1,500 bird species, and 600 mammals. Many of these animals can not be found anywhere else on Earth. Some of the rainforest’s rare animals include the caiman crocodile, the morpho butterfly, the spotted ocelot, the river otter, and the emerald boa, toucans, macaws and cock-of-the rocks, jaguars, anteaters, the three-toed sloth, and tapirs.

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Washington DC 1-202-250-6004
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Europe +49 (700) 4444-7827 (3pm-Midnight Mon-Sat)
Fax +49 (711) 856-6971
UK 0871-711-5370 (2pm - 11pm Mon-Sat)
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