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A green iguana is seen on a tree at the Amazon rainforest, in Leticia, Colombia on April 1, 2023. Amazon rainforest is one of the worldâs most important reservoirs of insect, animal, and plant biodiversity and accounts for more than half of the worldâs tropical forests. The department of the Amazon covers 109,665 km2, equivalent to 9.6% of the national territory and 27.2% of the Colombian Amazon. The Amazon River (6,400 km long) runs 117 km through Colombia. Life is punctuated by the floods of this giant river, which in the dry season spreads over a width of 4 km, only to flood the forest for kilometers during the rainy season when the water level rises by 15 m. (Photo by Juancho Torres/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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