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Without risking life or limb, readers can explore the wonders and beauty of the Amazon in this Where Is...? title.
Human beings have inhabited the banks of the Amazon River since 13,000 BC and yet they make up just a small percentage of the population of this geographic wonderland. The Amazon River basin teems with lifeanimal and plant alike. Its a rainforest that is home to an estimated 390 billion individual trees, 2.5 million species of insects, and hundreds of amazing creatures and plants that can either cure diseases, or, like the poison dart frog, kill with a single touch. Where Is the Amazon? reveals the amazing scale of a single rainforest that we are still trying to understand today and that, in many ways, supports our existence on this planet

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For Mary Kay Bissell who encouraged me to discover the world SF To my family - photo 1
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For Mary Kay Bissell, who encouraged me to discover the world
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To my family in Puerto Rico, who showed me the beauty of El Yunque
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Where Is the Amazon?

On August 26, 1542, Francisco de Orellana, a Spanish explorer, and his crew finally arrived at the Atlantic Ocean. They had been sailing down a mighty river in South America. The journey had lasted more than two hundred days. The river and the surrounding landscape were like nothing they had ever come across. The river was so wide that they could not see across it in places. And the creatures swinging in the trees, splashing in the water, and flying through the sky were not like the creatures in Spain.

When Orellana and his men arrived back in Spain Orellana told stories about - photo 4

When Orellana and his men arrived back in Spain, Orellana told stories about their incredible journey to anyone who would listen. And it was no wonder whythe river that Orellana and his men had traveled down was the Amazon. And the surrounding landscape was the Amazon rain forest.

The Amazon is truly one of the natural wonders of the planet Although not the - photo 5

The Amazon is truly one of the natural wonders of the planet. Although not the longest river in the world, it carries more water than the Nile, the Mississippi, and the Yangtze combined. The river has about fifteen thousand tributaries (rivers and streams) that flow into it. Four of them are each more than one thousand miles long.

This incredible river flows through a rain forest that is probably the oldest - photo 6

This incredible river flows through a rain forest that is probably the oldest in the world. (A rain forest is a forest with tall trees; a warm, humid climate; and lots of rain.) The Amazon rain forest includes areas of nine South American countries: Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. And it covers an area the size of the United States, not including Alaska and Hawaii. Scientists believe there may be around 400 billion individual trees in the rain forest. Thats more than a thousand trees for every person in the United States.

Since Francisco de Orellanas time the Amazon River and the rain forest have - photo 7

Since Francisco de Orellanas time, the Amazon River and the rain forest have been explored by thousands of people. The plants, animals, and people living in this part of the world have captured the interest of scientists, explorers, and tourists. It may seem that after almost five hundred years, there would be no more to learn. But the Amazon is special. What we are discovering is that there will always be more to discover about this incredible place.

Chapter 1
The River Changes Course

The mighty Amazon River starts high up in the Andes Mountains in Peru along the west coast of South America. The river then flows east for more than four thousand miles across South America and empties into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil.

The Amazon didnt always flow east It used to flow westward and emptied into - photo 8
The Amazon didnt always flow east It used to flow westward and emptied into - photo 9

The Amazon didnt always flow east. It used to flow westward and emptied into the Pacific Ocean. However, the formation of the Andes Mountains, about fifteen million years ago, led to the river changing direction. The mountains blocked the flow of the Amazon. It became a seaa huge inland body of water. Over a long period of time, this inland sea gradually changed to into a massive swampy lake.

The environment of the area also changed during this time. For millions of years, much of the land around the Amazon River had been a mix of rain forests (wet forests) and savannas (dry grasslands). But when the river got blocked up, much of the savannas became rain forest. More rain fell in the area, which meant more plants, bushes, and trees grew there. The climate became hot and humid.

The Earths Plates The surface of the earth is made up of eight major plates - photo 10

The Earths Plates

The surface of the earth is made up of eight major plates. These plates are like the skin of the planet. They are always moving, but at a very slow paceonly a couple of inches each year. The collision of two plates is what created the Andes Mountains fifteen million years ago.

About ten million years ago the water in the freshwater lake slowly worked its - photo 11

About ten million years ago, the water in the freshwater lake slowly worked its way through the sandstone at the bottom. The water was able to start moving. The lake became a river again. Only this time it was flowing eastward.

Chapter 2 First Settlers The first settlers probably arrived in the Amazon - photo 12
Chapter 2
First Settlers

The first settlers probably arrived in the Amazon about twenty-five thousand to thirty thousand years ago. They came from the north of Asia and traveled across a frozen sea that linked Asia and North America. Over time, they made their way south to the tropical region surrounding the Amazon. No other humans were there, and these first settlers quickly spread out to cover a large part of what is now Central and South America.

These people were hunter-gatherers They lived on whatever animals they could - photo 13

These people were hunter-gatherers. They lived on whatever animals they could kill and whatever plants they found in the wild. They did not raise animals or grow crops. The trees provided fuel for the fires that cooked their food and kept them warm. They also provided wood for building their homes. Once the food sources in an area were used up, the hunter-gatherers moved on to a new place.

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