Amazon rainforest is a green paradise on the surface, but under this confusing mask full of green, it is a forbidden area for us.
Amazon rainforest is also called Amazon rainforest, and the difference between the two names is only caused by the different translations. We will use the name Amazon rainforest.
The Amazon rainforest is located in the Amazon basin of South America. Its scope is close to 5 million square kilometers. How big is 5 million square kilometers? China has a land area of 960 square kilometers, and the Amazon rainforest accounts for about half of China's land area. You can imagine how big the Amazon rainforest is.
Not only that, the Amazon rainforest also has the largest water body in the world-the Amazon River. But the Amazon River is the second longest river in the world, second only to the Nile. Why is this happening? Because it is generally believed that the length of the Amazon River is 6400 kilometers, while the length of the Nile River is 6650 kilometers.
Although the length is not as long as the Nile, the water flow, water area, number of tributaries and the number of creatures in the water far exceed the Nile, creating the world's largest. Moreover, the main channel of the Amazon River is extremely wide, the water level is deep, the water flow is stable and the shipping conditions are extremely comfortable.
So what is the charm of Amazon? The huge area also determines the forest area of the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon rainforest alone occupies half of the world's rainforest area. It can be said that the Amazon rainforest is the largest "lung of the world" on earth.
At first, the United States was mostly Indian. Now most people are foreign invaders. In the development process of these years, the Amazon rainforest has also ensured its existence because of danger. Until now, Amazon can be said to be very low in purity in the world. It is also this purity that rainforest animals and plants are not affected by human beings.
The scale and purity of the rain forest also ensure the richness of plant and animal species in the Amazon rain forest. It is understood that there are no fewer than 50,000 species of plants in the Amazon river basin alone, and half of them cannot be identified by known plant species. There are nearly a million species of life in the Amazon rainforest.
In addition to the beautiful and charming scenery, the purity of Amazon rainforest and the richness of animal and plant species can be said to be the charm of being a tropical rainforest.
The most fascinating and dangerous, Amazon has many charms, and behind these charms are endless dangers.
Direction recognition
Because the Amazon rainforest is hardly affected by human activities, the state of the forest is still in the primitive state. In addition, the tropical area is large and trees cover the sky, so we can't determine our specific direction according to the sun, and we can only rely on a compass or GPS to determine our position.
Extreme temperatures and extreme terrain.
Due to being in the tropics all the year round and abundant rainfall, almost all parts of the Amazon rainforest are humid and sultry. Imagine that you have been in the sauna and are covered in steam. Moreover, sweat cannot evaporate and stays on the skin surface continuously, which is very harmful to the skin. There are two components in sweat, one is acidic and the other is alkaline. Excessive accumulation leads to skin aging. At the same time, the existence of sweat will keep the pores of the skin open, and the excessive reproduction of bacteria will cause various skin diseases.
Unpredictable extreme terrain is also one of the dangers. You can't predict what kind of terrain is waiting for you in your direction. Due to the limited vision, we can't have a perfect countermeasure for the next terrain response.
All kinds of poisonous and dangerous animals and plants
Poisonous mosquitoes are everywhere in the Amazon rainforest. Such as bloodsucking leeches, giant centipedes in Amazon and so on. The grasshopper looks like a bug, but in fact, it is elusive and will be absorbed on your skin inadvertently. Although it is just a bug, it will infect us with germs by sucking blood.
In addition to mosquitoes, the existence of large animals is also extremely dangerous for us, such as Amazon python and Amazon python.
Of course, there are dangers in the water. The Amazon River also contains many dangers, such as piranhas, toothfish and Amazon crocodiles. The reputation of piranha can be seen from the name, while toothfish is attracted by body fluids, that is, it may enter the human body to devour human tissues when urinating or crossing the river, and will remain in the human body unless it is removed by surgery.
Plants do great harm to the human body, because they want to protect themselves, so plants have evolved ways to protect themselves, and they have grown stingers on their bodies. These stingers will appear on our roads and inadvertently cut our clothes, causing us to be in extreme danger.
However, the Amazon River is harmful to us, but it is also a gift from nature.