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The Amazon
 Total Area 7.584.421 Km² ( this area, also called Big Amazon, includes the countries: Brazil, Colombia, Equator, Peru, Venezuela, Guyana and Surinam).

 Legal Amazon Region: 5.217.423 Km² ( it includes nine Brazilian States: Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima and part of the state of Maranhão);

 Amazonian Basin: 4.982.000 Km ² (it includes nine Brazilian states, however it excludes part of the states of Tocantins, Maranhão and Mato Grosso);

 International Borders: 11.000 km;

 Amazon represents 7% of the total area of the planet;

 Amazon detains 50% of the global biodiversity;

 The Amazon region presents an average temperature of 26 °C and relative moisture of the air above 90 % during the whole year;

 The difference between the biggest and the shortest day during the year varies between 30 and 50 minutes.

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