These visitors to the Amazon provide scale for this large buttress root system. Trees are usually deep rooted to extract more nutrients, but buttress roots support are shallowly rooted trees. They are common in rain forests because most of the nutrients are inside the trees and plants of the forest leaving the soil nutrient poor.
Looking from the middle of the Amazon River to one of the banks. Besides being one of the longest...
The Amazon River in Colombia is used for bathing, fishing, and as a main transport route. With no roads...
Shaman in the Amazon are known for inducing altered states of consciousness. They do this by entering a trance...
Emergents are trees that rises above the forest canopy. This specimen was photographed in the Amazon rainforest of southern...
A section of flooded rain forest in the Amazonas Region of Colombia. Up to one-third of Colombia resides in...
Gold Macaws natural range is Central and South America. This pair of Macaws were spotted in the Upper Amazon...
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, is native to East Asia, but has ben cultivated and naturalized in the Amazon rainforest.
Puerto Nariño is the second biggest town in the Amazonas department of Colombia. It is a lot smaller than...
