The Amazon rivers basin covers some forty percent of the South American continent, which size is of the forty-eight contiguous United States. The Amazon River Basin is home to the largest rain forest on earth. The water of the Amazon made the land suitable for producing different kinds of agricultural products, such as rice, coffee, tea, bananas, nuts etc.
The Amazon river basin is known as one of the worlds biggest source of iron, bauxite, copper, gold, manganese, nickel, silver, and tin, with an estimation of 1,600 billion dollars.
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