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unusual facts about Amazon River Basin



2009 Brazilian floods and mudslides

The Amazon River Basin suffered its second heaviest flood in one hundred years during this period.

Climate of the Tampa Bay area

During the summer, west-central Florida receives as much lightning as the world’s true lightning leaders such as the Lake Victoria region of Africa and the central Amazon River Basin.


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Apistogramma cacatuoides

The cockatoo dwarf cichlid is found in the Amazon River basin, in tributaries of the Ucayali, Amazon and Solimões rivers from the Pachitea River to Tabatinga in Peru and Colombia where it lives in small shallow streams or lagoon-like waters in the rain forest.