Hylaea (forest)
Hyläa (from the Greek hyle, forest ), Alexander von Humboldt called the huge jungle area in the Amazon and Orinoco river basin . The term is still sometimes used in biogeography to describe the area of the tropical rainforest from the Andes to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Orinoco springs to the edge of the Brazilian table country .
In German East Africa , the rainforest there was given the same name.
In ancient times a forest area on Borysthenes (today Dnieper), which was inhabited by the Scythians , was called Hylaea (Greek Ὑλαία).