Amazon Basin Map [Map]

Itam (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2000

Scale 1:4,000,000. Printed on one side.

Detailed regional map includes portions of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, the Guyanas, Peru, Surinam, and Venezuela. Elevations shown by color changes.

Legend locates cities and settlements of all sizes; roads from highways to unpaved roads; trails. Also airports and airstrips; railways. Hydrographic features such as glaciers, waterfalls, non-perennial streams, swamps and seasonally inundated land. Lighthouses; mines; wells; active volcanoes; ruins and other points of interest.

List of national parks and other protected areas. Glossary of abbreviations of geographic features translated into English, Spanish & Portuguese.

Editorial Reviews

Language Notes

Text: English, French, German, Spanish

About the Author

ITMB Publishing (International Travel Maps and Books) of Vancouver, Canada, prepares detailed reference and travel maps of countries, regions and cities around the world. ITMB has released more than 190 titles to date and is adding approximately 35 new titles each year. A cartographic pioneer whose titles include many that are unique or the first of their kind, the company produced the first commercially available travel map of the entire South American continent in 1985.

Product Details

• Map: 1 pages
• Publisher: Itmb Publications Inc (January 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1553410475
• ISBN-13: 978-1553410478
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 4.1 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,122,031 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars DECENT MAP, WITH A FEW SHORTCOMINGS, November 23, 2005

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Denis Benchimol Minev "Amazonia" (Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amazon Basin Map (Map)

This is the only map I found that covers the entire Amazon region, from Ecuador to Brazil. Just that is a nice plus for someone planning a trip in the Amazon. It also provides the location and name of even the smallest isolated communities in the Amazon, which is helpful when trying to locate them.

As drawbacks, I would two main issues:
1. Some of the towns mentioned do not exist - there are a few point in the map that indicate there should be a city and, when I got there, I found nothing. There are not many, but it is a bad feeling I can tell you.
2. It does not differentiate between mid-size and small cities. The size of the letter is the same for a city of 10 thousand and for a community of 100, but for the traveler it make a huge difference.

I would recommend it as good reference, but I would not rely on it entirely to plan my trip, I think a guide like Bradt's or Lonely Planet's would be a welcome support.