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Llama
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The eastern Andean slopes receive much more rainfall than the dry western slopes and
are draped in lush cloud forests as they descend into the lowland rainforest of the
Amazon. Here, the undulating landscape rarely rises more than 500m above sea level as
various tributary systems feed into the mighty Río Amazonas (Amazon River), the largest
