TEXT I The Amazon Rainforest: The World's Largest Rainforest The Amazon River Basin is home to...

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TEXT I The Amazon Rainforest: The World's Largest Rainforest The Amazon River Basin is home to the largest rainforest on Earth. The basin – roughly the size of the forty-eight contiguous United States – covers some 40 percent of the South American continent and includes parts of eight South American countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, and Suriname, as well as French Guiana, a department of France. Reflecting environmental conditions as well as past human influence, the Amazon is made up of a mosaic of ecosystems and vegetation types including rainforests, seasonal forests, deciduous forests, flooded forests, and savannas. The basin is drained by the Amazon River, the world's largest river in terms of discharge, and the second longest river in the world after the Nile. The river is made up of over 1,100 tributaries, 17 of which are longer than 1000 miles, and two of which (the Negro and the Madeira) are larger, in terms of volume, than the Congo (formerly the Zaire) river. The river system is the lifeline of the forest and its history plays an important part in the development of its rainforests. […] Disponível em: http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/. Acesso em: 07 ago. 2017. Descrita no texto como a maior do mundo, a floresta tropical Amazônica está localizada em uma bacia hidrográfica cujo tamanho pode ser comparado

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D: aos quarenta e oito estados contíguos dos Estados Unidos da América.

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