Animated Amazon: the representation of the Amazon Region in Brazilian animated films is based upon the assumption that what we normally understand as the Amazon is a social construct grounded on the exogenous view whose origins are conceived even before European explorers announced America as the New World. Such conception continues into the present as it is incorporated to various discourses embedded in the post-modern culture. Therefore, the present research aims at verifying the manner in which the Amazon region is represented by Brazilian animators; it is based upon the main images and concepts applied to represent the region through other media such as literature, painting, and the traditional cinema (live act). These representations provide cliché-images and stereotypes that are widely reproduced by animated films which – likewise other media – usually disregard social, economical, and historical reality of the region and its main protagonist: the Amazonian mixed-race caboclo societies. This results in a limited standpoint of the nature and the indigenous whose imagery has become strong to the point it represents the concept of Brazil in foreign cinematography and – often times – in the search of a national identity in Brazilian arts. On the other hand, traditional legendary narratives as well as mythological beings – originated and reproduced in the mixed-race and indigenous oral tradition – find in animation the ideal support for their materialization and perpetuation due to the proximity of the media to fantasy and fictional narrative. To our understanding, these would be some of the reasons in order for the Amazon to be continuously explored by animated cinema.