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The Andes Mountain - It’s the second highest mountain range and the backbone of South America. The Amazon River- It’s the largest river by volume. It

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• The Andes Mountain - It’s the second highest mountain range and the backbone of South America.

• The Amazon River- It’s the largest river by volume. It flows North in the Peruvian Andes then East through Brazil to the Atlantic Ocean.

• The Guiana Highlands- a group of mountain in the Northern part of the Amazon.

• The temperature rarely gets higher than 93 degrees farinheight or drops below 68 degrees farinheight.

• Rainfalls often is more than 100 inches a year.

• Some of the amazon animals in the Rainforest are: turtles, anacondas, monkeys, rodents, tent making bats, parrots, harpy eagle, a strawberry poison frog, silver dollar fish.

• Some plants in the Rainforest are: ferns, fungi, grasses, lilies, orchids, palms, an the pepper family.

IIn Brazil everyone over the age of 18can vote to elect the Governor and President. The President is aloud to rule the country for only 6 years. He also runs the country with the help of Brazil’s congress.