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Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Source: Neil Palmer/CIATCC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Gastronomy of the amazon region
Gastronomy of the Amazon Region : from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela

Amazon Rainforest Cuisine: Traditional Food and Dishes from 6 countries

Venezuelan Rainforest Cuisine

Bolivian Rainforest Cuisine

Ecuadorian Rainforest Cuisine

Colombian Jungle Cuisine

Brazilian Jungle Cuisine

Peruvian Amazon Cuisine

Amazon Rainforest Drinks

Amazonian dishes

Amazon Culture

The jungle that grows around the Amazon River Basin encompasses a vast region once inhabited by many peoples, giving rise to a plethora of cultures and languages.

amazonian cultures

Economy of the Amazon Rainforest Region

the mark of the amazonia (3)
The mark of the Amazon : 3 historical figures marked by the same ethnic group: Claude Levy Strauss , Marshal Cándido Rondón and the president of the United States Theodore Roosevelt .

Rainforest Explorers – The Amazon Basin through history

amazon-explorers
Amazon Explorers : Conquerors , Missionaries , Scientists , and Plunderers (16th – 21st Centuries)
flora of the amazon

Rainforest Plants

One of the most characteristic features of the Amazon is its exuberant biodiversity, which includes an incredible variety of fruits and medicinal plants.

Amazon Rainforest Products

Rubber tree – Genocide / Big business

The Ayahuasca Failure Part II

Amazon Rainforest Animals

Find in this section specialized articles on each of the most characteristic species of the Amazon jungle: majestic birds like the harpy eagle , adored mammals like the pink dolphin , felines feared and revered as the jaguar , deadly amphibians like dart frog , ritual insects like the bullet ant , huge fish like paiche or pirarucú and powerful reptiles like anaconda among many others…

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DANGEROUS Animals (TOP 10)

candiru: el pez vampiro del amazonas

Candiru: the Vampire Fish

Spiders

Insects

Reptiles

Mammals

Fish

Birds

tourism in the Amazon

Tourism

Visiting the Amazon is no longer as risky as it used to be, here you can find how to do it in a safest way. Search in two main sections: Tourist attractions and Amazon Hotels . Both of them subdivided in turn by country

Amazon countries

The Amazon region is a territory today geopolitically shared by 6 or 9 countries, depending on how you look at it. Each one has managed, in their own way, badly or well, their piece of jungle, their piece of green treasure, sometimes wasting and abusing it, other times caring for and protecting it.

amazonian countries

Ecuador

Colombia

Brazil

Venezuela

Bolivia

Peru

amazon river basin

Amazon River Basin

The Amazon is primarily a river. The largest, the longest, the mightiest. That river is formed by many others that flow into it, they are its affluents or tributaries that together make up a hydrographic basin.

11 Amazon River Cities

Amazon Rainforest Climate

Amazon Rainforest
Jungle

Amazon River tributaries

Index

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