Amazon Rainforest Facts – 100 Facts About the Amazon Rainforest

Facts About Amazon Rainforest

Amazon natives speak about 170 different languages.

The loudest animal found in the Amazon is toucan, it can be heard from as far as half a mile away.

It rains for about 4 hours in a week in Amazon rainforest.

The world’s largest river by volume is the Amazon River. It has over 1,100 tributaries.

Amazon river once used to flow west-ward instead of east-ward as it does today.

70% of the continent’s GDP is produced in areas that receive rainfall water from the Amazon.

Though tropical rainforest covers only 6% of the total Earth’s surface, they are home to over half of the plant and animal species found in the world.

Today Amazon river flows east-ward but once it flowed west-ward. Rise of the Andes has altered the rivers route.

Amazon river discharges 5 times as much water as any other river in the world.

If Amazon rainforest was a state, then it would the 9th biggest country in the world.