The Amazon, a journey into the jungle of Colombia < > Get to know by far the most water-rich river on earth. It offers a unique habitat for an almost unlimited variety of fauna and flora. It is a river in northern South America and experts estimate that it has existed for over one hundred million years. About 300 km south of the equator it crosses the Amazon basin, framed by the Andes in the west and shaped by tropical rainforest, eastwards to the Atlantic Ocean. It is estimated that the...