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I watched the documentary, “The Lost Children” on Netflix this past weekend, and now I’m obsessed with the Amazon.
Not Amazon, like the e-comm behemoth… THE Amazon.
The documentary details the harrowing search for four children, lost for 40 days in the Colombian Amazon.
The search took place in parts of the Amazon that is so dense, that it blocks 90% of sunlight. Rescuers often couldn’t see more than 20 meters in front of them.
The Amazon is wild. The rainforest has more than 350 BILLION trees, the river carries more water than the next seven combined, and it’s unfathomably big.
Like by land mass: is roughly 40 percent of South America and about two-thirds the size of the United States.
So here are some more mind-boggling facts about the Amazon Rainforest.
