The Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical forest on the planet, covering approximately 5.5 million square kilometers across nine countries: Brazil with 60% of the total, followed by Peru with 13%, Colombia with 10%, and smaller portions in Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. It is home to 10% of the world´s known species, more than 390,000 plant species and 2.5 million insects, as well as 3,344 recognized Indigenous territories that protect ancestral knowledge. In this Risk, the Brazilian Amazon is the largest central territory, the Amazon River axis connects the Atlantic with the Peruvian and Colombian Andes, and controlling the Orinoco basin in Venezuela or the Madeira in Bolivia gives you access to strategic river routes. Deforestation concentrated in Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru marks areas of conflict over resources, and whoever controls the access points from the Andes or the Guiana Shield can project power across the entire region.