Throughout the 1700s, the Marañón River in northern Peru held the distinction of being the Amazon's source, says Andrew Johnston, a geographer with the Smithsonian's National Air and Space ...

Adventure on the Amazon: An aerial view of the Amazon River near Iquitos, in Peru's Loreto Region. In 2024, an expedition group will set out to travel a 7,000-kilometer (4,350-mile) Amazon River ...

For centuries, people believed the Amazon’s source was the Marañón River in northern Peru. Then explorers argued that following another remote tributary, Apurímac River, led to an even more ...

By Marcelo Rochabrun LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian indigenous groups were blocking a large river in the country’s Amazon region on Wednesday in protest over a crude oil spill of an estimated 2,500 ...

Deep in northern Peru lies a remote city that serves as a gateway to the Amazon. Take a river cruise, explore natural reserves, and delve into its dark history.

The Boiling River regularly reaches 86C – with drastic consequences for the surrounding rainforest. When you drive towards Peru's Boiling River, along a bumpy, four-hour track through the ...

Huge tributaries that feed the mighty Amazon River — the largest on the planet — have plunged to record-low levels, upending lives, stranding boats, and threatening endangered dolphins as ...

People from the Tikuna Indigenous community carry aid from a nonprofit amid a drought on Amazon River in Loma Linda, near Leticia, Colombia, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. Water levels have dropped by up ...

Spanning an impressive 6,400 kilometres, the Amazon River weaves through Brazil, Peru and Colombia. Though seeing all 6000 ...

It took several days of observation before researchers and local fishermen found the best way to catch the Amazon river dolphins they were studying in the largest lake in the Amanã Sustainable ...