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.