Brazil Slide Series: Collection Intro To Brazil, Slide No. 0007.

Creator

Herbert Knup
Jon M. Tolman
Siegfried Muhlhausser

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Publication Date

3-2-2009

Description

Igapó forest vegetation along one of the many small river tributaries in the Amazon region. Most of the Amazon Basin is covered by dense equatorial rain forest though the northwest bank includes savana areas. Much of the forest along the rivers is flooded during the whole year while other forest areas remain covered only during the rainy seasons when the river swells and overflows, usually from January through June.Vegetação de Igapó ao longo dos muitos pequenos rios afluentes na região do Amazonas. A maior parte da bacia Amazónica é coberta por uma densa floresta equatorial, embora na sua margem noroeste apareça uma vegetação de Savana. Grande parte da floresa ao longo do rio está inundada durante todo o ano (este tipo de vegetação é denominado de igapó). Outras áreas da mesma, porém, ficam inundadas somente durante as épocas de chuvas (vegetação denominada de várzea) quando o rio enche e transborda, normalmente entre os meses de janeiro a junho.

Publisher

Latin American and Iberian Institute / University of New Mexico

Rights

Brazil Slide Series Collection: This article is copyrighted by the Latin American & Iberian Institute (LAII) of the University of New Mexico. Rights permission is for standard academic, non-commercial, use of these materials. Proper citation of this material should include title, author, publisher, date, and URL. Copyright Latin American and Iberian Institute University of New Mexico 1988