Chapter Notes and Summary
• Amazon River Basin lies near equator.
• Amazon basin drains portions of Brazil, parts of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Columbia and a small part of Venezuela.
• Amazon Basin has a hot and wet climate throughout year.
• rainforest region is rich in flora and fauna.
• A variety of birds, monkey, sloth, ant-eater tapirs and various species of reptiles and snakes are found here.
• Slash and Burn agriculture is commonly practised in these forests.
• tributaries of rivers Ganga and Brahmaputra together form Ganga-Brahmaputra basin in Indian subcontinent.
• plains of Ganga and Brahmaputra, mountains and foothills of Himalayas and sundarbans delta are main features of basin.
• Tropical deciduous trees grow in Ganga and Brahmaputra plain.
• Ganga and Brahmaputra rivers together form largest delta in world.
• This basin is rich in wildlife. A variety of fish is found here.
• Several cities such as Allahabad, Kanpur, Varanasi, Lucknow, Patna and Kolkata are there in Ganga-
Brahmaputra plain.
• Tourism is also an important activity of basin.