Our earth is a treasure trove of natural beauty and mystery but at the same time, the earth is very strange and fun. There are some places on our earth, which are beautiful as well as very dangerous and interesting.
On one side of this wonderful earth, there are long rivers, waterfalls, lakes, and beautiful mountains, on the other side, there is a deep and deep gorge, on one side there is desert, dunes and on the other hand, beautiful green jungles. This miracle of the earth makes it wonderful, which also maintains the natural balance of the earth.
Amazon River Basin is home to the largest Rainforest on our planet Earth 'The Amazon Rainforest, also known as 'Lungs of the Earth'. A forest about which you must have heard for sure at least once in your life, about whose wonderful things you cannot miss. Very strange, beautiful, and mysterious at the same time, this forest of the earth is.
Facts about Amazon Rainforest-
• The Amazon Rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest on our planet Earth and is solely responsible for the production of more than 20 percent of the oxygen produced on our planet Earth.
• The forest covers only four percent of the Earth's land but produces more than 50 percent of the rain that falls in the region of the Amazon.
• The forest is home to more than 2 million insect species, 40,000 plant species, 2,200 fish species, 16,000 various tree species, 1,300 bird species, 427 mammals, 430 amphibian species, and around 385 species of reptiles.
• The forest has the longest river in the world- the Amazon River (7,062 km).
• The Amazon Rainforest provides more than 75 percent of the world's food variety. And more than 20% of pharmaceuticals contain Amazon ingredients.
• Only 1% of the sunlight makes it to the ground of the Amazon forest, which makes it dark from inside.
The Forest of Amazon is huge, filled with mysteries, some of these mysteries are-
- Giant snakes- Although big snakes are seen all over the world, there are giant snakes in Amazon, which people claim to see from time to time. According to the tribals living in the forest of Amazon, the presence of giant snakes is common there.
- According to science, anaconda snakes can be thirty feet, the fossil of the extinct Titanoboa snake was found to be 42 feet long. A South American explorer- Percy Fawcett has spent a lifetime researching the Amazon jungle, claiming to have seen and shot a 42 ft long snake during an expedition in 1906. He then claimed to see a 70 ft long anaconda.
- His whole life was spent researching in the Amazon jungle, he claims to see many such mysterious creatures which were surprising. Like the 6 feet long-legged spider, whose stories are already prevalent in the jungles of Amazon. In the year 1992, a 75 feet long snake was seen by a priest. And what are the scientists of America claiming that the world's largest snake Titanoboa still lives in the forest of Amazon?
- Amazon Tribes- Various types of tribes are still found in the forest of the Amazon. Some tribes of the forest live deep inside the forest, which has not been contacted with the outside world to date, they even attack the people when they see them because they do not like people strolling around their settlement, according to the experts. There is such a race whose people are very tall and whose eyes are full blue.
- Maneater Trees- Many of the rescued people have even claimed that there are such trees in the Amazon forest which make humans their prey and eat them. Such trees are found very inside the forest. People also claim that some tribal tribes of the forest catch people and sacrifice them by making them a victim of those maneater trees.
- Geoglyphs- Due to deforestation, the trees of the Amazon Rainforest are becoming fewer, and the land of the forest is visible. Scientists flew drones over the forest and they were stunned to see the pictures they got. They saw figures on the land more than 1500 years old; those figures were more than 400. Scientists still do not know who made these shapes and for what reason.
- A Lost City- A Southern American explorer Percy Fawcett believed that there lies an advanced and ancient city in the forest of Amazon. In the year 1920, in Rio De Janeiro, a document completely changed the life of Percy Fawcett; that document was 'Manuscript 512'. In that script, a Portuguese explorer claimed that he had seen a city in the Amazon jungle with walls of silver and gold.
- After seeing this document, Percy Fawcett was convinced that his belief about the city was correct. He went on a search of the city the very next year in 1921, but due to heavy rains, he had to come back several times. Then in 1925, he started the search again with several of his investigative comrades and his son also.
- After 4-5 months he wrote a letter to his wife that he was close to reaching the city of the Amazon forest, he sent that letter to his wife through a local. After a few months, nothing was found of him and he disappeared mysteriously. Several investigators were also sent to search for him but he was not found
- Boiling River- There is also a boiling river in the Amazon forest. Everyone is clueless about how the water of that river boils. Its temperature ranges from 45°C to almost 100°C. It is believed that one of the drilling companies accidentally pierced the geothermal system present below the river, due to which the gas present in the land got mixed with the river and that is why the water of that river boils.
Even if there are many secrets of the Amazon Forest, the mysteries of Earth have not been solved yet by humans. We do not even know that humans will be able to solve them. Before solving the mysteries of the Earth, humans want to go to Mars.
But now the Giant Amazon Forest is getting exhausted. Deforestation has reached the highest rate in a decade. Approximately 7,900 km square (3,050 sq miles) of rainforest has been destroyed between August 2017 and July 2018. More than 1000 major fires have burned in the rainforest since January. The lungs of the Earth need us.
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