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Glossary: várzea

Type of seasonally-inundated floodplain forest in the Amazon region.

The term is normally used for those forests flooded by whitewater rivers but is sometimes used to refer to blackwater environments for which the more traditional term is igapó.

Flooded várzea habitat in the rio Curipi, Amazon basin, Brazil. © Fábio Maffei