Amazon or Amazon is translated from Amazon. In the geography related textbooks of universities, middle schools and primary schools, they are all translated into "Amazon". So it is also generally translated as "Amazon" academically. In fact, in terms of pronunciation, "Amazon" is also closer.
The translation of "Amazon" is also common in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan publications. In some non-academic travel magazines, you can often see the translation of "Amazon". Therefore, spoken English is often influenced by this and is called "Amazon". In order to facilitate public understanding, many non-academic TV programs are often translated into "Amazon", such as the movie "Out of Amazon".
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Amazon River is the largest river with the largest flow and the widest basin in the world. Rivers are winding, lakes and swamps are densely covered, and floods generally occur in flood season, resulting in poor drainage. The estuary is 240 kilometers wide, and the flow in flood season reaches 654.38+0.8 million cubic meters per second, which is 654.38+00 times that of Mississippi River. The displacement is so large that the sea water becomes weak within the range of 160 km from the shore.
There are more than 1000 known tributaries, of which 7 tributaries are more than 1600 km long. The fertile silt deposited in the Amazon River nourishes an area of 65,000 square kilometers, and its basin area is about 7.05 million square kilometers, almost twice that of any other big river basin in the world.
There are many kinds of plants in the Amazon Plain, with endemic species accounting for 1/3. It is estimated that there are about 800 million cubic meters of wood stored near the sea, accounting for 1/5 of the total wood storage in the world.
Trees are mainly Myrtaceae, Rutaceae, Meliaceae, Lauraceae and Apocynaceae. It is rich in economic trees such as mahogany, ebony, Lvmu, Brazil fruit, clover gum, milk wood, Brazil cherry fruit, ivory coconut, etc. Brazil cherry fruit tree can grow to 80 meters high, and the oil content of cherry fruit reaches 73%, which is much higher than sesame and peanut. Edible, with high economic value.
In addition, the forest is a huge gene pool. Among the100000 species on the earth, 2-4 million species live in tropical and subtropical forests.
There are 42,000 species of insects in the sampling plot of only about 0.08 square kilometers in the Amazon River basin. There are more than 1, 200 different kinds of plants per square kilometer in the Amazon rainforest, and 1/5 of the animals and plants on the earth grow here.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Amazon Plain