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| | Amazon River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The first descent by a European of the Amazon from the Andes to the sea was made by Francisco de Orellana in 1541. | | | From the east of the Andes, the Amazon Rainforest begins. | | | Conservation of the Amazon Rainforest has been a major issue in recent years. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_River
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| | The Amazon River |
| | The life force of the Amazon Rainforest is the mighty Amazon River. | | | The Amazon Rainforest, the world's greatest remaining natural resource, is the most powerful and bio-actively diverse natural phenomenon on the planet. | | | The Amazon is the widest river in the world. |
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http://www.freshwateraquariumplants.com/amazonbiotope/amazonriverfacts.html
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| | Amazon River Report |
| | The Amazon dumps ten times more water into the Atlantic than the Mississippi dumps into the Gulf of Mexico. | | | Orellana’s party reached the mouth of the Amazon on Aug. 26, 1542. | | | Orellana and his party traveled over seven hundred miles before finding food. |
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http://www.geocities.com/popfam/rforest.html
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| | Amazon River running low on water - World - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper |
| | Low levels could cause economic havoc in regions of Peru that depend on the Amazon for shipping, by denying boats a navigable river as well as usable ports and harbors. | | | "This year we have had adverse weather conditions that are rarely seen along the Amazon, which have resulted in less rainfall," said Ena Jaime, a climatologist with Peru's National Meteorology and Hydrology Service. | | | Other meteorologists discount a link between hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico and drought in the Amazon. |
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http://washingtontimes.com/world/20051010-103117-6705r.htm
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| | Amazon articles on Encyclopedia.com |
| | In the Trojan War, she led a troop of Amazons against the Greeks. | | | Penthesilea PENTHESILEA [Penthesilea], in Greek mythology, an Amazon queen. | | | In 1638 he was sent by the viceroy to accompany Teixeira on his return journey down the Amazon River. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/00408.html
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| | Amazon River Aquariums, Discus Fish, and Reverse Osmosis Water. |
| | The Amazon has been described as is the “greatest river in the world”. | | | They were 200 miles from the Gulf of the Amazon and could see no land. | | | The Amazon River drains a massive area of land – 40% of the South American continent. |
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http://www.aquariumfish.net/pages/amazon_001.htm#top2
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| | Amazon cruises - rainforest tours - river boat cruise - |
| | Our expeditions are suitable for all people and all ages, we organize all excursions to your ability and interest. | | | The bellow site map will help you find the diferent pages in our website to plan your trip to the Amazon basin on board of one of our expedition ships | | | The Amazon river and its tributaries are the largest fresh water system on the planet and home of the most biodiverse region. |
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http://www.amazoncruise.net
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| | Amazon Interactive |
| | Learn about the rainforest and the Quichua people who call it home. | | | Check out these and more Web adventures about art, science and social studies, at Educational Web Adventures. | | | This site is based on field research into indigenous ecotourism in the Ecuadorian Amazon. |
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http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html
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| | Amazon (river) - MSN Encarta |
| | Large-scale development of the Amazon began in the 1980s. | | | Except near its mouth, the Amazon watershed constitutes one of the most thinly populated regions in the world. | | | Some authorities believe that the river was named after the Amazons, women warriors of Greek mythology who were thought to reside in the region. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571466/Amazon_(river).html
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| | Amazon.com: The River: Music: Bruce Springsteen |
| | Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. | | | David Bradley "David Bradley" (Sterling, VA USA) - See all my reviews | | | But more often he now finds himself tethered to home, forced to confront his problems and accept his responsibilites. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000025KI?v=glance
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| | Amazon Basin Facts - National Zoo FONZ |
| | The source of the Amazon is the lake, Lauricocha, in the Peruvian Andes. | | | The length of the Amazon is measured from the source of the Ucayali river, which joins with the Maranon to eventually form the Amazon. | | | The Amazon Rainforest is thought to be the oldest tropical forest area in the world, perhaps as much as 100 million years old. |
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http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Amazonia/Facts/basinfacts.cfm
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| | Save the Amazon Rainforest Amazon River - Rainforest Animals |
| | This hoax came along with the myth that the Eldorado was guarded by the women warrior race of the Amazons. | | | They never found the Eldorado or the Amazons, but the name was set. | | | Expeditions started to go up the Amazon River trying to find the Eldorado. |
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http://www.amazon-rainforest.org
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| | The Amazon Rainforest |
| | Although debated, it is believed that much of the Amazon reverted to savanna and montane forest (see chapter 3-Ice Ages and Glaciation). | | | At this time the Amazon rainforest was born. | | | The result from the silt deposited at the mouth of the Amazon is Majaro island, a river island about the size of Switzerland. |
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http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon
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| | WWF Amazon |
| | The immensity of the Amazon's challenge, like the scale of its landscape, requires a long-term conservation vision, backed by strong scientific expertise and the commitment of a global network of resources. | | | These are precisely the strengths that World Wildlife Fund has applied to its more than 30 years of work to protect and preserve the Amazon and the animals that inhabit this ecological wonder. | | | But despite its natural richness, the Amazon ecosystem is fragile and in peril. |
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http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildplaces/amazon/index.cfm
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| | Pink Amazonian River Dolphin |
| | It has only been within the past three decades, more or less, that the psychic relationship between the people and dolphins has been fractured as a result of deforestation and habitat degradation. | | | Intelligence: The intelligence of Amazon River dolphins has not been extensively tested. | | | ISPTR believes that her work with the Peruvian Forest Police to protection both species of river dolphins, and empowering the local peoples of their rights and use of the law, there has been less illegal commercial fishing and logging in the area, thus saving the natural habitat of the land and aquatic life. |
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http://www.isptr-pard.org/dolphin.html
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| | Animal Info - Boto (Amazon River Dolphin) |
| | The boto occurs throughout much of the Amazon and Orinoco watersheds, being found almost everywhere it can physically reach without venturing into marine waters. | | | This was the case for all of the water levels that were sampled (river flows ranging from medium-low to high). | | | This seasonality means that the female boto's high energy demands near birth and during early lactation are met by increased availability of fish driven from flooded forests by falling water levels and forced back into, and concentrated in, the remaining waterways. |
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http://www.animalinfo.org/species/cetacean/iniageof.htm
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| | Amazon River Dolphin |
| | St. Hilaire worked for Napoleon Bonaparte to collect zoological specimens, and his boto specimen serves as the type specimen for the species. | | | Children born with spina bifida, in which the skull fails to close, appear as if they have a blowhole and are known as "boto’s babies." Natives feared that harming a boto will cause their children to be born with this disease. | | | Living throughout the Amazon and Orinoco River basins in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, and Venezuela, botos were historically safe from capture in much of their range because of superstitions of the native people. |
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http://www.tmmsn.org/mmgulf/inia_geoffrensis.html
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| | Greatest Places: Amazon: Rivers |
| | water of the Amazon mainstream is colored by suspended, eroded sediment. | | | This site has a great section devoted to kids. | | | Check out the Salt Lake County Library's Rivers of the World links. |
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http://www.greatestplaces.org/book_pages/amazon/rivers.html
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| | Amazon Interactive: Where's the Amazon |
| | The Amazon is one of the world's great rainforests. | | | The Amazon river runs 3,000 miles from the Andes to the sea, and is longer than any river but the Nile. | | | The vast Amazon basin covers more than two and a half million square miles, more than any other rainforest. |
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http://www.eduweb.com/rainforest/worldmap.html
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| | What's New in the World: Main Story |
| | On our journey, we traveled down only a fraction of the Amazon, from Iquitos three hundred miles through the Peruvian Amazon to the Colombian/Brazilian frontier, and back. | | | The Amazon river is deep and wide enough for ocean going vessels to make it all the way to Iquitos, which is remarkable considering that this city is nearly two thousand miles from the Atlantic Ocean! | | | It is a tough time for many of the villagers who live on the river banks because their houses (most of which are built on stilts) are surrounded by water. |
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http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/news/feb97/mainstory_feb97.html
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| | The Exploratorium's "What's New in the World" Feb. '97 |
| | We'd like to thank all of the wonderful people we met in the Peruvian Amazon, they've helped to make this issue a very special one. | | | Our journey began in Iquitos, Peru, a noisy city of 400,000 and the largest in the Peruvian Amazon. | | | When I first realized that I would be traveling down the Amazon, I envisioned dense forests, poisonous snakes, colorful birds, and swarming insects. |
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http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/news/february97.html
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| | Amazon river - Amazon River Dolphin |
| | BBC - Science and Nature - Amazon Abyss | | | The source of the Amazon River was just recently discovered. | | | Amazon.com: Books: Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson,Kevin Hawkes. |
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http://www.gou123.com/q/amazon-river.html
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| | WWF Amazon |
| | > Make a Difference - What You Can Do To Save The Amazon | | | The value of keeping the Amazon forests intact in terms of carbon storage, hydrology and rainfall, pharmaceuticals and fisheries far outweighs land-uses that are rapidly destroying large areas of the Amazon such as cattle ranching and illegal logging. | | | The network of parks and reserves is to be based on rigorous scientific planning and careful public consultation. |
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http://www.worldwildlife.org/amazon
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| | Amazon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Dahomey Amazons, an all-female regiment of the African kingdom of Dahomey. | | | The Amazon River, Amazon Rainforest, and Amazon Basin through which it flows. | | | Sharron Davies, who went under the name Amazon in the British TV series Gladiators. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon
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| | Amazon (river) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Amazon (river) |
| | Large ocean-going ships can travel for 1,600 km/994 mi up the Amazon to the port of Manaus, which was developed from the mid-19th century to export rubber from the rainforest. | | | This is the furthest point up the course of any river in the world that is served by sea-going vessels. | | | The dense tropical rainforest of the Amazon watershed is intensely inhospitable, and remains one of the least populated and developed regions on Earth. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Amazon+(river)
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| | Amazon River; world's greatest river |
| | The Amazon is also home to some other extreme creatures, featured here in "Extreme | | | The Amazon River is not only the greatest in the world, it is home to many other "Extremes" | | | One of the largest freshwater fish in the world is found living in the waters of the Amazon River. |
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http://www.extremescience.com/AmazonRiver.htm
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| | The Amazon in the Electronic Passport |
| | Alicia and his students have been raising money to buy small portions of the Amazon rainforest to ensure that it will not be destroyed. | | | The entire world depends on the rainforests in the Amazon basin and around the world. | | | People are moving into the Amazon basin and clearing the rainforest to build cities. |
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http://www.mrdowling.com/712-amazon.html
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| | BBC NEWS Americas Amazon area threatened by drought |
| | The Amazon - which is a lifeline for those who live in the river basin - is expected to continue dropping until November, he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press. | | | Brazil has adopted emergency measures to deal with one of the Amazon region's worst droughts in decades. | | | Last week, 16 people were killed in a ferry accident which the captain blamed on difficult river conditions. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4318538.stm
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| | WWF Global 200 Ecoregions -- Amazon River and Flooded Forests |
| | These "flooded forests" in the Amazon region are the most extensive of this habitat type in the entire world. | | | The Amazon contains 20 percent of the Earth's fresh water, which it carries from high up in the Andes Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. | | | Piramutaba catfish, one of the many large catfishes of the Amazon, is believed to migrate a distance of about 2,050 miles (3,300 km) from its nursery grounds in the Guianan-Amazon mangroves to its spawning grounds in the upper Amazon. |
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http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/profiles/g200/g147.html
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| | Journey Into Amazonia -- Enter Amazonia |
| | The Amazon River is the lifeline of Amazonia, carrying an astounding 16 percent of all the river water in the world over its 6,500 miles. | | | Within the 2.5 million square miles of the Amazon Basin resides a wealth of life richer than anyplace else on earth, including 500 mammals, 175 different lizards, 300 other reptile species, tree climbers of every kind, and a third of the world's birds. | | | A fifth of all river water discharged into the world's oceans is conveyed through the Amazon, 10 times that of the Mississippi River. |
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http://www.pbs.org/journeyintoamazonia/enter.html
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| | Inia geoffrensis, Amazon River Dolphin at MarineBio.org |
| | ACS boto (Amazon River Dolphin) Cetacean Fact Sheet - American Cetacean Society | | | The Amazon river dolphin, Inia geoffrensis, is found in South America from the Amazon river delta to the Andes Mountains. | | | It can also be found in tributaries of the Amazon, lakes and the Orinoco River and its tributaries in Venezuela. |
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http://marinebio.org/species.asp?id=337
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| | Amazon River - Wildlife |
| | The Amazon River is home to thousands of exotic species of life. | | | This river is approximately 6,450 Km long which makes it the second longest in the world. | | | It is very interesting to see just what is out there, in the jungles of the Amazon. |
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http://web.bryant.edu/~langlois/ecology/amazonwildlife.htm
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| | Maps of The Amazon River |
| | In this one you can just make out the Amazon in the center. |
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http://www.mbarron.net/Amazon/bigmap.htm
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| | Greatest Places: Amazon Page |
| | Know a good book related to the Amazon? | | | FIND and ADD local connections to the Amazon. | | | You can also send a postcard of Amazon macaws! |
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http://www.greatestplaces.org/book_pages/amazon2.htm
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| | Discover Amazonia - Inti Travel and Tours - Amazon - Peru - Amazon River Jungle Cruises |
| | She carries 44 passengers in 21 air conditioned cabins on an itinerary which explores life on the Amazon river and its people. | | | After following a long career as a cargo / passenger ship on the Amazon river it was completely rebuilt in 1981 to enable the international traveler to experience the Amazon in basic comfort. | | | Transfer to a hotel in the city of Leticia (not included*). |
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http://www.discoveramazonia.com/peru/cruises.htm
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| | Amazon Watch |
| | Amazon Watch works to defend the environment and rights of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin. | | | May 09, 2006 -- Amazon Leaders to Warn ConocoPhillips: “No Trespassing on Our Ancestral Lands!” Oil Giant’s Huma... | | | , the site of the international campaign to hold ChevronTexaco accountable for its toxic contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon. |
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http://www.amazonwatch.org
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| | Amazon River - definition of Amazon River by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | The captain of the distressed vessel, at last heading the injunction, cast down his bucket, and it came up full of fresh, sparkling water from the mouth of the Amazon River. | | | Brasil, Brazil, Federative Republic of Brazil - the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter |
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Amazon+River
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| | Rivers of Life: River Profile - The Amazon |
| | is the second longest river in the world, and the largest in terms of the size of its watershed, the number of tributaries, and the volume of water discharged into the sea. | | | As settlement brings changes to the forest, these cultural groups are also changing, and the lessons they have gained through thousands of years of living within the rainforest are in danger of being lost. | | | Rainforest plants and animals may hold cures to diseases and provide information and materials valuable to people around the world. |
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http://cgee.hamline.edu/rivers/Resources/river_profiles/Amazon.html
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| | Antarctica Cruise, Amazon River Cruise, Amazon Tours, Galapagos Tour, Nile River Cruise |
| | International Expeditions is a founding member of The International Ecotourism Society and the International Galapagos Tour Operators Association. | | | From the beauty of the Amazon to the natural treasures of the Galapagos Islands, our journeys offer the finest in nature travel and cultural travel. | | | From our first journey to the heart of the Amazon more than 25 years ago, to the enormous variety of tours we offer today, International Expeditions has always arranged the most comprehensive journeys exploring natural wonders and interesting cultures. |
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http://www.voyagers.com
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| | Amazon Scenery - Forest |
| | Here you can experience what it is like to travel there. | | | Learn how tourists travel along the river, and what they might encounter. | | | The Amazon River is the world's largest river. |
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http://www.junglephotos.com/amazon/amscenery/river/river.shtml
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| | Amazonia - National Zoo FONZ |
| | Watching Amazon river fishes: Here is a glimpse into the rich and vibrant underwater life of the Amazon. | | | The Amazon River stretches more than 4,000 miles. | | | When the large, serpent-like arapaimas swim past the camera, you will get a close-up look at one of the largest freshwater fish in the world. |
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http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Amazonia
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| | Amazon (River of Dreams) |
| | I went on the river for money, I sold my old rotten shack For a rusty tanker leaking oil, and the burning sun was on my back Traveled up the ragin' river, I watched the jungle burn And in the reddenin' twilight, I wondered would I ever return. | | | Amazon, Amazon, Is it Heaven or hell ? |
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http://theband.hiof.no/lyrics/amazon.html
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| | Amazon River travel and tours, rainforest jungle photos |
| | This page was created and copyrighted in December 2003. | | | Welcome to our Amazon peoples and villages photo gallery! | | | Educational travel photos in the Amazon Rain Forest, Peru. |
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http://www.explorationsinc.com/PhotoGallery/amazon-tours-people
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| | The Amazon River |
| | I have made a web site about the Amazon River in South America. | | | Permission granted for non profit and educational users, to use the images contained on this site for their own purposes. | | | Click one of the Index Items to find more about this Amazing River. |
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http://www.mbarron.net/Amazon
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| | Virtual Explorers |
| | Be sure to take a look at their lesson plans and resources for the Amazon River Dolphins. | | | Read all about our daily adventures and dolphin studies in Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve in northern Peru. | | | In August 1999 and again in November 2000, Tracy Sena, Susan Reid and Shelly Luke traveled with biologist Tamara McGuire to study freshwater river dolphins. |
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| | Amazon Rain Forest School Web Site |
| | Schools participating in the The Amazon Rain Forest School Project may access the audio files.] | | | (ARES) in Limoncocha, Ecuador -- the first Amazon rain forest elementary school Web site on the Internet!! | | | We have 124 students, seven teachers and six classrooms (each a separate building). |
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