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.
Puerto Nariño is the second biggest town in the Amazonas department of Colombia. It is a lot smaller than...
A small clearing in the Amazon rainforest with a home in view. This location is on the banks of...
Looking from the middle of the Amazon River to one of the banks. Besides being one of the longest...
Man in the Amazonas region of Colombia with an anaconda wrapped around his arm.
The Amazon in Colombia is flooded for up to half of the year depending on the exact location. This...
Two children from the Amazonas Region in Colombia. One third of the country lies in this region in what...
Shaman in the Amazon are known for inducing altered states of consciousness. They do this by entering a trance...
The Amazon alligator, also known as the black caiman, is a crocodilian species found in South America, primarily in...
