Latin America: Population

Part 1 in the Latin America series. This episode examines the roles altitudinal changes, rainforest, and coastal regions play in the population distribution of Latin America. IU Southeast Instructor: Clint Franklin

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[IUSoutheast]

Yes - it seems hard to believe, doesn't it? The soil in the Amazon rainforest is infertile, which makes farming difficult.

[RealPineappleMan]

The constant rain in the Amazon rainforest has washed away most of the nutrients in the soil. That's why farmers have a hard time growing crops there. It is possible to replace nutrients in soil. It just depends on how much time and money people are willing to invest. The Amazon rainforest is really big. It's the largest rainforest in the world. The Amazon River Basin is almost the size of 48 U.S. states.

[RealPineappleMan]

The soil in the Amazon rainforest is infertile because it lacks nutrients. The only reason trees survive there is because some of them have root systems 985 feet long. The Amazon rainforest is full of plants that survive by storing nutrients in themselves rather than relying on nutrients in the soil. That's why there are a lot of carnivorous plants there. The Amazon rainforest is about 1.7 billion acres in size and contains more than two million different species of plants and animals.

[finajet]

i have been in the Amazon,cant say it has an extreme climate.

[DeborahOrtiz]

Did you really say the Amazon is infertile?