It has 2.1 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, and its fields in the eastern Amazon are the most developed in all of Amazonia.

The eastern Amazon climbing mouse, Rhipidomys emiliae, is a rodent species from South America.

Primary productivity or wood production is highest in western Amazon and lowest in eastern Amazon which contains heavily weathered soils classified as oxisols.

It is rare or even absent in the western part, but is among the commonest nightjars in the eastern Amazon and the Guianas.

But by the late 1980's, the rosewood population in Brazil's eastern Amazon had also been eradicated.

A funny thing happened back when the Brazilian government was building the giant $8 billion dam that bears the name of this town in the eastern Amazon.

It is endemic to humid forests in the eastern Amazon in Brazil.

In Brazilian towns of the eastern Amazon, residents seem less alarmed by their raging forest fires than many people who live elsewhere.

Belem, a market city older than New York, dominates the eastern Amazon where dams, railroads and mines have industrialized the tropics.

Throughout the 20th century, most of the Brazil nuts consumed around the world came from the jungle surrounding this bustling river market town in the eastern Amazon.