The Amazon discharges more water into the Atlantic than the next seven largest rivers combined. Its basin spans nine countries, 3,344 indigenous territories, and more than thirty million people. And after four hundred years of expeditions, satellites, and GPS — scientists still cannot agree on where it begins. In 1541, a Spanish soldier floated the entire length of this river and described cities along its banks. No one believed him. Five centuries later, LIDAR scanning revealed pyramids, road networks, and urban centers buried beneath the canopy — and a man-made soil so fertile it still outperforms anything else in the basin a thousand years after its creators were wiped out by smallpox. In this documentary, discover the Amazon's lost civilizations, the rubber boom that built an opera house in the jungle and destroyed entire peoples, the hundred uncontacted tribes that chose to stay hidden, and the scientific debate over whether this river — the greatest on Earth — is even possible to measure. The river that resists every map. The forest that shaped itself around the people who shaped it. ▶ See More Travel Documentaries: CUBA: https://youtu.be/hZVpUroqEVI?si=MhiN3TEiIqWSWYe8 STRAIT OF HORMUZ: https://youtu.be/n-0ZNf81DAs?si=vsdurEMaVYkTrtT5 ▶ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@WhereonEarth4K #Amazon #TravelDocumentary #Documentary #WhereOnEarth #SouthAmerica #Rainforest
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Crocs. Everywhere.
Beautiful Venezuela
That of the beautiful Amazon Rainforest and Angel Falls Columbia
Seems interesting but there's some annoying ad on the bottom of my screen? I pay for premium I shouldn't be bombarded with with bs
What an excellent and quality documentary 👍
Imagine how much more amazing, diverse, and extraordinarily beautiful our entire planet would be without humans carving and mining, cutting, and destroying entire ecosystems that kills off entire species everyday many of whom were never discovered or known. If we were only orbs of energy with the freewill to circumnavigate the globe without any physical impact as observers only how cool would that be to see one giant nature preserve that would be a pristine and stunning earth.
Paradise❤🙏
Some of the visuals and photos accompanying the narrative are absolutely ridiculous.
Lovely video .
thx for sharing~!
Thank u for this video. I'll be moving back to the jungle where my ancestors lived.
Can't we ALL find a way to pay these people to protect the forest rather than destroy it. They are so poor I don't believe they WANT to destroy their forest ❤❤❤
This is such a devatatlingly sad, sad documentary 😢😢😢😢😢
They are killing us. I live on 5 acres, NOBODY touches my trees ❤❤❤ I'm 69-year-old hippie tree hugger and proud of it !!!!!!¡!
Makes NO difference where it starts, it's there & it's beautiful ❤❤❤
play it at 13:58 & listen to that sentence lmfaooooooo
Best documentary on the Amazon I’ve ever seen. I fall in love with my planet home again. So sad it is not seen as our home that feeds us but as a resource for wealth and power.
I think Switzerland is much larger than Marajó, but it is indeed quite large. Edit: Not by much. Switzerland is 15,943 square miles. Marajó is 15,500.
This video would be even better with a HUMAN doing the commentary.
Bro this is good documentary! Crazy to me how the Amazon at one point had a population of roughly 19 million people if im not mistaken!