4PLANET PLACE
Amazon Basin
The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest and river system, spanning multiple South American countries and connecting immense forest and freshwater networks.
Boundary: This is a transboundary basin-scale discovery object. The ATLAS rectangle is navigation geometry, not a legal basin, national or protected-area boundary. WWF figures are organisation-published regional context and must not be interpreted as a current 4PLANET census.
Living systems
- Tropical rainforest
- River and floodplain systems
- Freshwater migration corridors
- Wetlands and riparian habitats
Related species
Sources
- WWF — Amazon — Basin/biome scale, forest/freshwater connectivity, biodiversity and pressure context.
- WWF — Protecting the Amazon's critical wildlife areas — Jaguar and migratory freshwater-species connectivity research context; connectivity is not a complete distribution map.
- WWF — Amazon facts — Independent public explainer within the same publisher family used only as a secondary cross-check on rainforest/river-system and threat context.