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References

"Economic Importance Of The Amazon River". Linkedin. N.p., 2016. Web. 11 Sept. 2016.

Unknown, Unknown. "Biodiversity". The Amazon Rainforest. N.p., 2016. Web. 6 Sept. 2016.

Unknown, Unknown. "Biodiversity". The Amazon Rainforest. N.p., 2016. Web. 11 Sept. 2016.

Unknown, Unknown. "People Of The Amazon". Greenpeace International. N.p., 2016. Web. 6 Sept. 2016.

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Annual forest loss in the Amazon 2001-2012

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Deforestation in the Amazon from 1988-2010

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The Amazon River and the surrounding Rainforest are full of myths and legends. An example of one of these would be El Tunchi. El Tunchi is an evil spirit that haunts the jungle and terrorizes people with an unnerving, whistling sound. Another example would be Pirarucu. According to myth, Pirarucu was a brave—yet merciless—young warrior who was vain and overly proud of his position as the chief’s son. Tupa (the “god of gods”) became fed up with Pirarucu’s behavior and ordered the goddess of torrents to unleash a violent rainstorm on him. Pirarucu was fishing when he saw the storm coming his way but simply laughed it off. A bolt of lightning hit Pirarucu and threw him into the Tocantins River, where he was transformed into the menacing fish.The dwellers along the riverbanks in Amazonia are known as ribereños and consist of a combination of cultural groups that includes detribalized natives, mestizos, and those of European origin. They are temporary communities, which have neither the welfares of a traditional tribal community with its medicine man nor the profits of modern civilization with its available medical care, except for annual immunizations and elementary schooling.

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The Amazon River holds a fifth of the whole world’s fresh water and experts state that the Amazon flows at more than ten times the speed of the Mississippi river. The Amazon River is the second largest in the world and every minute 12 billion liters of water flow in this river. Among the key economic gains from this river, there are many trade channels. The governments of countries such as Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia have erected transportation systems, particularly roads around the Amazon River area to enable development projects and trade within these areas. The Amazon River also has thousands of types of flora and fauna, most of which are striking and unusual. This has fascinated several tourists to the area who come in search of journey as well as research. These tourists come to see fish, animals, plants, flowers, insects and different species of living creatures.

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Social Value of the Amazon River

The social value of the Amazon River is very large. The river itself carries more different species of fish than the Atlantic Ocean and many people live along the banks of the river to catch them. The Brazilian Amazon alone is home to 20 million people including 400 differentnativegroups and the future of the Amazon depends on the future of those that call the forest home. Although the majority of people in the Amazon live in cities and towns, there are still many indigenous groups living in the jungle, rely on the forest for their way of life. It offers almost everything from food and shelter to tools and medicines, as well as playing a crucial role in people's spiritual and cultural life.  Yet the traditional way of life for indigenous Amazon cultures is being endangered.As logging companies move in, localpeople are losing their traditional territory. Some indigenous people, such as the Deni living in anisolatedsome who have had no interaction with our "outside" world.These people area of Brazil's Amazonas state, are working not only to protect their culture, but the forest and the variety of life upon which they depend.  The Amazon is a unique resource for all of humanity.
Facts and Figures

·         As many as 150 million indigenous people live in ancient forests worldwide.
·         The Brazilian Amazon is home to amongst 280,000 and 350,000 indigenous people, of which 180,000 live traditionally, heavily dependent on the ancient forest for their sustenance and spiritual and social life.

·         According to the anthropologist Darcy Riberio, 55 indigenous populations vanished in the first half of the 20th century.

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The world’s largest river system is being rapidly tainted and imperilled by deforestation. In the flooded forests, selective logging of the kapok tree and virola is quickening deforestation and wiping out populations of species over large regions. Open floodplains are being converted for cattle ranching, which can include introduced water buffalo. The Amazon Rainforest covers a large range of land, much of which is shared with humans. As one can imagine, when it comes to sharing land, humans regularly win. Large parts of the Amazon are being lost due to tree logging. Many of these threats have to do with larger companies and farms that need the land or trees that exist in the area. Within the Amazon Rainforest, there are thousands upon thousands of different creatures and with the wide spread range of the Amazon there are still many areas that have not been explored, however, with the zones humans have discovered and explored, has come the damage and fragmentation of those areas.

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The first European to explore the Amazon, in 1541, was the Spanish soldier Francisco de Orellana, who gave the river its name after reporting ferocious battles with tribes of female warriors, whom he likened to the Amazons of Greek mythology.
It is located in South America and runs through Guyana, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Peru. It is approximately 6400 kilometers in length. The Amazon River contributes more fresh water to the world's oceans than any other river. It also has the tributaries than any other river and the biggest watershed.