Hugs from the Amazon!

THE AMAZON THAT BNDES FINANCES.

THE BRAZILIAN PAN AMAZON.

Ecuador protested that it claimed the Amazon Basin between the Caqueta river and the Marañon Amazon river.

It is usually called Amazonía.

Those south of the Río Guaviare flow into the Amazon Basin.

Furthermore, during UNCTAD XI a memorandum of understanding was signed with the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization initiating a partnership to develop a regional BioTrade programme for the Amazon region.

Animation BNDES in the Amazon

WORKERS HOSTAGE TO PUBLIC WORKS WORTH BILLIONS IN THE AMAZON.

Read Publica's special coverage on BNDES in the Amazon.

Similarly, the north east of South America is covered by the flat Amazon Basin.

It is located in the Brazilian state of Amazonas.

The southern part is covered by the Amazon rain forest and belongs mostly to the Amazon basin.

The Large Scale Biosphere Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia is an international project to expand understanding of the climatological, ecological, biogeochemical and hydrological functions of the Amazonian region.

A study by Brazilian scientists concluded that the Amazon is actually longer than the Nile.

As a result, Inca expansion into the Amazon basin and the Pacific coast of Ecuador was hampered.

Marajó () is an island located at the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil.

Certain isolated tribes, such as the Machiguenga of the Amazon, do not use personal names.

More than half of Venezuelan avian and mammalian species are found in the Amazonian forests south of the Orinoco.

Brazil has significantly reduced the rate of deforestation in the Amazon.

There are still some uncontacted tribes residing in the Amazon Rainforest.

The low river banks are interrupted by only a few hills, and the river enters the enormous Amazon rainforest.

Interactive Infographic The 20 Major Projects Financed By BNDES in the Amazon. Screenshot from the site BNDESnaAmazonia.org The National Bank of Economic and Social Development (BNDES) is the primary financier of large projects in the Amazon.

Guido Gelli, director of science at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), told the Brazilian TV network Globo in June 2007 that it could be considered as a fact that the Amazon was the longest river in the world.

The Amazon basin is the largest drainage basin in the world, about , and accounts for approximately one fifth of the world's total river flow.

During its negotiations with Brazil, Peru stated that based on the royal cedula of 1802, it claimed Amazonian Basin territories up to Caqueta River in the north and toward the Andes Mountain range, depriving Ecuador and Colombia of all their claims to the Amazon Basin.

On 21 October 2008 Vesyolye Ulybki was released internationally on online music stores.

The quantity of water released by the Amazon to the Atlantic Ocean is enormous up to in the rainy season, with an average of from 1973 to 1990.

BNDES IN THE AMAZON 17 OF 20 MAJOR INVESTMENTS HAVE PUBLIC SUITS AGAINST THEM FROM BRAZIL'S PUBLIC MINISTRY.

This is part of the XI national contest of nativity scenes. Crafted with Shipibos, Peruvian amazon jungle people.

But where does all this money go to? A big part is for infrastructure projects in the Amazon.

The lower Amazon seems to have once been a gulf of the Atlantic Ocean, the waters of which washed the cliffs near Óbidos.

Only about ten percent of the Amazon's water enters downstream of Óbidos, very little of which is from the northern slope of the valley.

In 1960, the construction of the new capital city of Brasília in the interior also contributed to the opening up of the Amazon basin.

A regional programme in support of indigenous peoples of the Amazon, funded by IFAD and the Andean Development Confederation, was presented.

On the Agência Pública website, the reports from the series BNDESnaAmazônia (BNDES in the Amazon) are available for reading (all in Portuguese), including

As part of this treaty, the border town of Leticia and its surrounding area was ceded from Peru to Colombia, giving Colombia access to the Amazon River.

The tucuxi ( Sotalia fluviatilis ), also a dolphin species, is found both in the rivers of the Amazon basin and in the coastal waters of South America.

By the law of access to information, Pública obtained 43 contracts from BNDES with large national corporations for business ventures in the Amazon.

About 70 of the valid species occur in the Amazon basin the Orinoco basin harbors about 22 species and ranks second in species richness.

Extreme specialists among these slave raiding ants, such as the Amazon ants, are incapable of feeding themselves and need captured workers to survive.

Despite this The World Factbook makes no difference between Amazon region of Colombia (predominantly jungle) and the Orinoquia region of Colombia (predominantly plains).

Fishing is allowed only in certain remote areas of the Amazon basin, and must be catch and release, or harvesting by native peoples for consumption.

Over the course of three months, our team sought to uncover the trail of investments in infrastructure projects in the Amazon.

The information collected also served as a base for the development of the interactive platform BNDES na Amazônia , a partnership between Pública and Eco