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Pictures of the Amazon River in Colombia

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These " Pictures of the Amazon River in Colombia " were taken during a 2007 trip to Colombia.





Grassy riverbank of an Amazon tributary


Amazon River in flood


Overhead view of deforestation in the Colombian Amazon


Amazon meadow


Flotsam in the Amazon river


Group of Amerindian girls in a dugout canoe on the Amazon river


Amazon river near Puerto Nari�o


Overhead view of slash-and-burn agriculture in the Amazon rainforest


Aerial view of the Amazon river as it forms the border between Colombia and Peru


Aerial view of the Amazon river


Aerial view of the Amazon river




Aerial view of the Amazon river


Aerial view of the Amazon river


Aerial view of an Oxbow lake off the Amazon river


Victoria amazonica


Amazon river port at Leticia


Outskirts of Leticia, on the Amazon river


Debrius floating down the Amazon river


Oropendula nests along the Amacayacu, a tributary of the Amazon river


Reeds along the Amazon river


Sunset over the Amazon river


Sunset over the Amazon river in Colombia


Amazon homestead


The Amazon River near Leticia, Colombia


Mothers and sons in a dugout on the Amazon










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