Map of the Amazon rainforest ecoregions

Rain forest trees

Venomous snake from the rainforest: the black-skinned parrotsnake

How people collect rubber from trees

The Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world.

The forest is in a basin drained mainly by the Amazon River, with 1,100 tributaries. It is a moist broadleaf forest which covers 7,000,000 square kilometres (2,700,000 sq mi). Of this, 5,500,000 square kilometres (2,100,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest.