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by akerl_ 2541 days ago
Notably, it’s not called “the Amazon Basin” to the people who live there (given that English is not their primary language).
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You may be talking about the indigenous languages of the region, but the whole region is literally called "Amazonas" in Spanish and Portuguese.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Amazonas