The Amazon Rainforest is a tropical rainforest with immeasurable biodiversity. It covers the parts of Brazil, Columbia, Peru and 6 other South American countries. It is believed to have formed during the Eocene era.
Why it is special: The Amazon Rainforest is the world’s largest tropical forest covering an area of 55,00,000 sq.km. It contains 390 billion individual trees divided into 16,000 species and the largest collection of living plants and animals in the world.