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Amazon Rainforest Plants

The Amazonian forest, due to the water affluent and the tropical climate, allows the biodiversity of plants, in their majority exotic and unique, besides, in the Amazon excursion, the visitors will be able to know their properties decorative or medicinal.

The use of plants with curative aims is an ancient practice from the indigenous tribes living in the Amazon jungle, and nowadays the tourists can witness this practice in the Amazon tour.

Nevertheless, the exact number of plants used for such aim is not known, neither its chemical characteristics or the process that the native ones use to transform them. This traditional practice has been affected by the deforestation of the Rainforest, that ends several species of trees and shrubs.

The ecological tourism is a practice with the purpose of protecting this region.