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Twenty percent of all the water that goes into the world’s oceans comes from one river—the Amazon.

The Amazon River begins in the Andes Mountains in Peru. It travels more than 6,000 kilometers to the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the Amazon’s water comes from rain. During the wet season, parts of the river are 190 kilometers wide.

More than half of the Amazon River is in Brazil. Here, it flows through the world’s largest rainforest. The Amazon rainforest has the largest number of plant and animal species on Earth. It has about 40,000 plant species and 3,000 kinds of fish. It also has 1,300 types of birds and over 2 million species of insects!

Some of the Amazon’s animals are dangerous. The anaconda is one of the world’s largest snakes. It’s also one of the scariest animals in the Amazon. But there are also gentle animals, like the sloth and the pink dolphin.

The Amazon is very important to our planet. There are still many kinds of animals and plants for us to discover. If we lose the Amazon, we’ll lose a big part of life on Earth.