Annual Toy Drive Kicks Off Throughout County The Boone County Toy Drive is now accepting donations of new toys. Donations can be dropped of at Lebanon Fire Department Station 11 or the...
The Amazon rainforest â which defined biogeographically includes the rainforest in the Guianas, which technically are outside the Amazon Basin â covers 7.8-8.2 million sq km (3-3.2 million sq mi), of which just over 80 percent is forested. The Amazon River is by far the world's largest river by volume.
The Amazon River Basin is home to the largest rainforest on Earth. The basin-roughly the size of the forty-eight contiguous United States-covers some 40% of the South American continent and includes parts of eight South American countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, and Suriname.he Amazon Rainforest is not only the largest forest in the world-it is often called the Lungs of the World. More than 20 percent of the world oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rainforest.