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ID: 7024092
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7024092
 
Record Type: physical
Hierarchy of Amazon Rain Forest (rain forest)  Amazon Rain Forest (rain forest)

Coordinates:
Lat: 02 30 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -2.5000  decimal degrees
Long: 060 00 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -60.0000  decimal degrees

Note: Located in drainage basin of Amazon river andd representing half of remaining rain forest on Earth; noted for varied plant and animal life, much still unrecorded by science; popular and scientific concern grows over ecological consequences of human activities.

Names:
Amazon Rain Forest (preferred,C,O,English-P,U,N)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of South America (continent)  ....  South America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Amazon Rain Forest (rain forest)  ........  Amazon Rain Forest (rain forest) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of South America (continent)  ....  South America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Amazon (area)  ........  Amazon (area) (P)
Hierarchy of Amazon Rain Forest (rain forest)  ............  Amazon Rain Forest (rain forest) (P)

Place Types:
rain forest (preferred, C)

Sources and Contributors:
Amazon Rain Forest..........  [VP Preferred]
...................................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002) accessed 03/17/99
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002) accessed 03/17/99
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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