The Amazon watershed region is the largest area of unbroken rainforest in tropical America (and in the
world) as shown in this map of Latin American rainforest. (Note: green area includes tropical forest outside
the Amazon watershed.) Countries with significant rainforest remaining are labelled. Other significant areas
are in western Colombia and Venezuela, east of the Andes and along the northeast coast of South America in
Suriname, French Guiana and Guyana. Much smaller areas include parts of Central America, as well as a region
along the southeast coast of Brazil. Both these additional regions are severely deforested however, due to a
combination of logging, ranching and urban development. (Countries without significant areas are not
labelled.)
(Data derived from map produced by National Geographic Map Machine.)
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