GEOGRAPHY THROUGH MAPS
Amazon rainforest · Selvas
Amazon rainforest covers a large part of tropical northern South America. Selvas is a traditional geographical term for dense tropical forests here. It includes diverse forest types and habitats rather than one uniform expanse.
Fast Facts
- Brazil contains the largest national share, but the forest extends across several countries.
- Seasonally flooded forests differ from non-flooded upland forest.
- Hevea brasiliensis, the commercially important rubber tree, is native to tropical South America; wild rubber extraction shaped Amazonian economic history.
Connected lessons
- Amazon rainforest · SelvasMap, explanation and practice
Geographical connections
- Carajás iron-ore districtRelated places
- AmazonRelated places
- Amazon BasinRelated places
- Rio NegroRelated places
- CerradoRelated places
- Moisture recyclingImportant for
- Carbon cycleImportant for