'Many different Amazonias, Amazonians': The cultures of Brazil's Amazon | In Pictures
Brazil’s slice of the Amazon rainforest is home to 28 million people.
Source: aljazeera.com
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Brazil’s slice of the Amazon rainforest is home to 28 million people.
Renowned for its stunning biodiversity, the Amazon rainforest region is also home to a vast array of people and cultures. “People usually think that the environment doesn’t contain and include people, but it does,” said soil scientist Judson Ferreira Valentim, who lives in Brazil’s Acre state. From small villages of thatched homes to the skyline of Belém rising above mist on the river – a view sometimes called “Manhattan of the Amazon” – Brazil’s slice of the Amazon is home to 28 million people.