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The Amazon Rainforest is the biggest rainforest on Earth. It covers a huge part of South America, mostly in the country of Brazil. It is so big that the entire United States could almost fit inside it! The Amazon River flows right through it, and that river holds more water than any other river in the world.

It rains almost every single day in the Amazon. All that rain helps millions of plants and animals live there. You can find pink river dolphins, poison dart frogs, jaguars, and giant anaconda snakes. Some trees grow over 200 feet tall, which is taller than a 15-story building.

The Amazon Rainforest stretches across nine countries in South America. Most of it is in Brazil, but it also covers parts of Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.