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Welcome to the River Riders home page.
On this site you will explore the Amazon River and all the wildlife that lives in it.
You can also click on the links on the page to see our photo album. After you look through the site feel free to take the River Rider challange

On your right is a picture of an Amazon Cayman.
 
Cayman: Any of various tropical American crocodilians of the genus Caiman and related genera, resembling and closely related to the alligators

FACT FILE

The Amazonian rainforest covers over a billion acres; if Amazonia were a country, it would be the ninth largest in the world.

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Rainforests are being destroyed at a rate of 2.47 acres per second. That translates as 78 million acres a year, or an area larger than the state of Florida.