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Similarities Between The Rainforest And The Amazon Rainforest
Both the Andes mountain range and the Amazon rainforest are home to more than half of the world’s species. The Amazon rainforest cover an extension of over 2.7 million square miles, providing the drainage basin of the Amazon river and its many tributaries, about 1,100 of them from the Peruvian Andes ( where the Amazon river is born) to the Atlantic
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