Amazon Interactive
Rainfall Comparison

 
rain gauge with 5' of rain Quichua boy

rain gauge with 9' of rain

American South,
Eastern Seaboard
and New England

 

Amazon
Rain Forest

The eastern parts of the U.S. get about five feet of rain a year.
That's only half what the Amazon receives!

frog eating insect

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