The Amazon rainforest is a vast evergreen forest in South America. The Amazon forest is named after the Amazon River. Its area is 7 million square kilometers which makes it the largest evergreen forest in the world. 60 percent of the forest is in Brazil, 13 percent in Peru, and the remaining 27 percent in Guyana, Suriname, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Fence Guyana.
The ecosystem of the Amazon rainforest is very diverse. The forest has 390 billion plants of 40,000 species. Which provides 20 percent of the world's oxygen. This is why the Amazon forest is known as the lungs of the world. There are also 427 species of mammals, 1294 species of birds, 378 species of reptiles, 428 species of amphibians and 2.5 million species of insects and 3,000 species of fish in the water.
It is really difficult to describe all the creatures in the forest. Notable animals, however, are: jaguar, vampire bat, anaconda, capybara, pink dolphin, tamarin monkey, macaw bird, poison dart frog, sloth, harpy eagle, piranha, etc.