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    the history of Brazil through the lense of fiction, as though peering through the lush foliage of the Amazon rain forest and happening upon the events of an entirely different era of travel and communication, before the advent of a world connected by a global network of information. Following the course of the Capella, a tramp steamship attempting to travel up the Madeira River and through the Amazon basin, this work of literature describes…

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    The Amazon River has a mean discharge of 170,000 m3s−1 with a minimum and a maximum of 60,000 m3s−1 and 270,000 m3s−1 (Gallo & Vinzon, 2005). The Amazon River runs through more than 6,700 km. It contributes 17% of the freshwater inputs to the global ocean (Callède et al., 2010; Richey et al., 1986). Located between latitudes 5°N and 20°S and between longitudes 50°W and 80°W, the Amazon basin covers 4/10 of South America and 5% of the worldwide…

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    The Borneo Lowland Rainforest is one of the richest forests in the world, it is an ecoregion within the tropical and subtropical regions of the island. The rainforest is located in Southeast Asia and runs through parts of Malaysia and Indonesia, the region has no clear boundaries to separate it from the Borneo Mountain Rainforest. The Lowland Rainforest takes up around 57% of the island territory consisted of an estimated 10,000 plant species, 380 bird species, and 15,000 mammal species. The…

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    Into The Amazon

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    A Critical Review of Into the Amazon by Scott Wallace I. Introduction Uncontacted people, also identified as isolated tribes, are known to be found in dense forest mostly in South America, Central Africa, New Guinea and India. These groups live without any contact with the civilization due to voluntary isolation or life circumstances, and their main characteristic is that they survive within their lands by hunting and gathering aliment from the nature. The majority of tribes speak isolated…

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    Amazon Rainforest Essay

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    The Amazon rainforest stretches 3 million square miles across nine different countries including Paraguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Perú, and Colombia. The main countries that house the Amazon are Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, and Columbia. However, majority of the Amazon is actually in Brazil. This place is teeming with life; vegetation, animals, and indigenous ethnic groups across hundreds of thousands of miles. There are about 80,000 species of plants, 3 million…

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    Amazon Rainforest Essay Every big mistake has a resolution. My home in the Amazon Rainforest is being destroyed day by day, soon to be gone. I, Watermelondrea am a Native Amazonian. Watermelondrea is what people like to call me, but I like to go by Watermelondrea. I am a 14 year old living in the Amazon Rainforest. My ancestors, the Native Amazonians, have lived here for over 12,000 years, and my family for as long as they can remember. This is the beginning of my journal about saving my home…

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    The Amazon rainforest should allow the rubber tappers to control the land because they are better for the environment and they are more adapted to the rainforest. For one, they protect the rainforest and its livelihood. The rubber tappers also use trees to make products like tries for like cars and bikes. The rubber tappers were the first to the Amazon rainforest that been there for many generations. According to the article Interest Groups “Since they lived there for many generations they…

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    The Amazon Rainforest

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    The Amazon Rainforest covers approximately 2,650,000 square miles of land in South America, more than one third of the entire continent. It is full of natural resources, such as fruits, vegetables, pharmaceuticals derived from plants, oils used for perfumes and detergents, and woods. Comprised of the largest collection of living plant and animal species in the world, this rainforest is also home to hundreds of indigenous tribes, each with their own language, culture, and territory(USA TODAY,…

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    equator but doesn’t restrict itself to certain coastlines. The tropical rainforest covers less than six percent of the earth, and happen to be found in three locations: Central America, Africa, and Indo-Malaysia. Specifically, the biome makes up the Amazon river basin, Zaire basin,…

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    Brazil Essay

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    variety of palms. Brazil is everything you could ask for, tropical weather, mountains,plains, jungles, valleys, rurals and urban areas. Brazil has great land for many uses. Brazil has a great soil for farming. They have tropical rain forest in the amazon where you can see all the animals and smell all the flowers, hear the bird chirping and feel the trees and the breeze and occasionally you can feel the mosquitos and other insects that can poke or bite you.you can go to the statue of christ…

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