The women of the tribe fought alongside the men, as was their custom. The name Amazon is said to arise from a war Francisco de Orellana fought with the Tapuyas and other tribes. Indigenous peoples make up 9% of the total population, and 60 of the groups remain largely isolated.
More than 30 million people of 350 different ethnic groups live in the Amazon, which are subdivided into 9 different national political systems and 3,344 formally acknowledged indigenous territories. The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests, and comprises the largest and most biodiverse tract of tropical rainforest in the world, with an estimated 390 billion individual trees in about 16,000 species. Four nations have " Amazonas" as the name of one of their first-level administrative regions, and France uses the name " Guiana Amazonian Park" for French Guiana's protected rainforest area. The majority of the forest, 60%, is in Brazil, followed by Peru with 13%, Colombia with 10%, and with minor amounts in Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations and 3,344 formally acknowledged indigenous territories. The Amazon rainforest, also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest near Manausīolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana ( France), Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela
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