Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana (B), Guyana, Peru, Suriname (B), Venezuela.
Almost entire Amazon Basin, from Andean foothills in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, east to southern Venezuela (drainage of upper and middle R Orinoco), locally south-western Guyana, and Brazil (east to R Negro and R Xingu drainages, south to southern Mato Grosso, just extending to headwaters of R Paraguai).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Amazonian Umbrellabird (Cephalopterus ornatus) [XC591980]
by Juan Freile from Rio Javar\u00ed, AM. Reserva Natural Palmar\u00ed, Brazil (call)
Amazonian Umbrellabird (Cephalopterus ornatus) [XC439633]
by id from Reserva Natural Palmar\u00ed, Rio Javar\u00ed, AM, Brazil (song)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
May form a superspecies with Bare-necked Umbrellabird (Cephalopterus glabricollis) and Long-wattled Umbrellabird (Cephalopterus penduliger) and all three suggested by some as being possibly conspecific, but this considered unlikely.