Known as the "Exotic Amazon", this vast region of exquisite natural beauty covers over two million square miles of dense tropical rainforest, one third of the territory of Brazil. It is the site of several of the world's largest rivers and contains one-fifth of the world's supply of fresh water. Rainfall is heavy and averages nearly ninety inches per year. The climate is hot and humid and temperatures usually range between the low seventies and the high nineties. The diversity of exotic plant and animal life is unparalleled anywhere in the world. With over two hundred species of fish, 2,000 species of birds and over a million species of invertebrates (many of which have yet to be identified), the Amazon Basin is a nature-lover's paradise. The Amazon River, the second longest river in the world (only the Nile is longer), stretches for over 4,000 miles, from within one hundred miles of the Pacific Ocean all the way to the Atlantic. The Amazon and its 11,000 tributaries create the largest river drainage system in the world.
At its one-hundred-fifty-mile-wide mouth, it discharges seventeen billion gallons of water per hour into the Atlantic, more than any other river in the world.

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