Rainforest: The Amazon

The Amazon is a wonderful place of wildlife and colour. the climate here is very damp and cold.a moist forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. The Basin covers seven million square kilometers (1.7 billion acres), of which five and a half million square kilometers (1.4 billion acres) are covered by the rainforest.This region includes territory belonging to nine nations: Brazil (with 60 percent of the rainforest), Peru (with 13 percent of the rainforest, second after Brazil), Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.