The Amazon River Basin suffered its second heaviest flood in one hundred years during this period.
Algot Lange (10 May 1884 -?) was a Swedish explorer and writer of the Amazon.
Amazonas is derived from Rio Amazonas, the local Portuguese and Spanish name for the Amazon River.
The name is taken from that of the Amazon River, from which certain green stones were formerly obtained, but it is doubtful whether green feldspar occurs in the Amazon area.
During travels that take them deep into the Amazon River rainforest, to two Caribbean islands, above the Arctic Circle, to the not-so-exotic independent Chinese territory of Hong Kong, and to Australia's outback, as well as several other mysterious locations in the United States, the boys meet a number of characters – some human, and some not, but all unforgettable.
In 2001, Omar received awards given by the Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte for two exhibitions: The Splendor of Opposites, a series of landscape photographs of the Amazon.
It was named in honor of Sir Peter Blake, who died in December 2001 during an environmental awareness expedition up the Amazon River.
The Forest Giant Owl (Caligo eurilochus) is an owl butterfly (tribe Brassolini of nymphalid subfamily Morphinae, ranging from Mexico, through Central America, to the Amazon River basin in South America.
The common name campina refers to its specific habitat, a cerrado-like open savanna at the Amazon River in Brazil.
They are widespread across northernmost South America, from the mouth of the Amazon River to the Colombian Andes, but also appear in central Brazil.
The range of the Colares stingray appears restricted to the mouth of the Amazon River in northern Brazil, in the estuarine area affected by the river's freshwater discharge; it may also occur in adjacent areas as far as Venezuela.
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The Colares stingray, Dasyatis colarensis, is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, native to the shallow brackish waters of the Amazon River estuary in northern Brazil.
This book primarily revolves around Josip's explorations in both the Arctic Circle and the Amazon River.
Several University of Maryland students wrote that they had investigated the origin of the unknown creature and had traced its ancestry to the Dway which according to the researchers the Dway is an animal which inhabited the left bank of the upper Amazon River and the Yo which apparently immigrated from the Yangtze River plateau via the glacier bridge which connected Alaska and China.
Entomocorus melaphareus is a species of driftwood catfish endemic to Brazil where it is found in the Amazon River.
Epapterus dispilurus is a species of driftwood catfish distributed in the central and western parts of the Amazon River basin along and south of the main channel of the Amazon River, and Paraguay River basin in Paraguay, northern Argentina and southern Brazil.
He seduces one of them, Joana, and afterwards they are abandoned in a bank of the Amazon River.
Following missionary work on the Amazon River in Brazil, Dr. Richard Douglass moved his family to the Oklahoma City area, becoming a well-respected Baptist minister to the large congregation of First Baptist Church of Putnam City.
Experts at canoe building and seamanship, the Arawaks migrated from the Amazon River Valley and Orinoco regions of Venezuela and Brazil, settling on the islands near coasts and rivers.
Designed for service on the Amazon River, the ships were of shallow draft and heavy armament and were ideally suited to inshore, riverine and coastal work but unsuitable for service at sea, where their weight and light draft reduced their speed from a projected twelve knots to under four.
There is limited overlap in their distributions with the Band-tailed Antbird occurring to the south of the Amazon River and the Black-chinned Antbird mainly found to the north.
The municipality is situated on the eastern slopes of the Kimsa Krus Mountain Range (Cordillera de Kimsa Krus) between the Altiplano in the west and the Amazon lowlands in the east.
In 1862, Fletcher sailed more than 3,000 kilometers through the Amazon River to collect species for professor Louis Agassiz.
Kane is best known for his book Running the Amazon (1989), a firsthand account of the only expedition ever to travel the entire 4,200-mile Amazon River from its source in Peru to the Atlantic Ocean, which took place between August 1985 and February 1986.
The Lawriqucha River issues from the lake Lawriqucha and later joins Marañón River which is one of the headwaters of the Amazon River.
The boat involved in the rescue (known as Maid II) was retired from service in 1983 and relocated to the Amazon River, where it served as a missionary ship for some years.
The main river in the affected area is the Paraná River, which is the second longest in South America after the Amazon.
In September 2013, de Rond and the Head Boatman of Clare College, Anton Wright, embarked on an attempt to be the first human beings ever to row unsupported the entire length of the Amazon River, starting in Nautu, Peru on September 1, 2013, and reaching the Brazilian coastal town of Macapa six weeks later.
The Metyktire is a native people who live on the Menkregnoti reservation in the Amazon basin.
Once again in the traveog documentary style, this video is advertised as taking place down the Amazon River in a canoe.
This is a reference to the Amazon.com connection with the Amazon River.
In his later years, he became an avid deep-sea fisherman in the waters of the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska, and the Amazon River.
All in all, there was a persistent tradition of various contents about a land controlled by women in the north which might have generated the name "Kvenland" in a somewhat similar manner than later times invented the name for the River Amazon.
After finishing his geography studies he became the leader of a Amazon-Jari-Expedition (1935-1937), supported by both Brazilian and German governments and the Nazi party's Foreign Organization (NSDAP/AO).
In 1984, Martin, who has long been involved in environmental causes, appeared in a public service announcement to help save pink dolphins in the Amazon River.
In the Amazon River basin, payaras are restricted to tributaries above the mouth of the Rio Tapajós.
The Peba–Yaguan language family (also Yaguan, Peban, Yáwan) is located in the northwestern Amazon, but today Yagua is the only remaining spoken language of the family.
Thanks to its wilderness and intact nature, the river Peene and its valley is often referred to as "the Amazon of the North".
Only one species is recognized, Phenakospermum guyannense, native to Surinam, French Guyane and the eastern Amazon River basin.
The tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis) in the Amazon River is another species descended from oceanic dolphins; however, it does not perfectly fit the label of 'facultative' either, as it occurs only in freshwater.
In 1975–6 she travelled by boat through the tributaries of the Amazon River of Brazil and also visiting the high mountain ranges of Peru and Bolivia.
Saibara left Texas with his wife and spent fifteen years in South America, where he established colonies along the Amazon River, before returning to Japan.
But even in the Selenidera toucanets which, though largely sedentary, are technically able to disperse widely, the Amazon River forms a barrier that was simply too wide to cross in significant numbers as to inhibit speciation.
It is found in humid forest in the Amazon north of the Amazon River, and in the far western Amazon and adjacent lower east Andean slopes.
The index of a stream or river may range from 1 (a stream with no tributaries) to 12 (the most powerful river, the Amazon, at its mouth).
Players take control of Taz to eat all the food in each of the nine levels - Tasmania, Australia, China, Greece, Switzerland, Amsterdam, Amazon River, Las Vegas and Transylvania.
Lewin and his wife Betsy Lewin drew on their travels to exotic places such as the Amazon River, Botswana, Egypt, Lapland, the Sahara Desert, and India when collaborating on their many books.
Thalassophryne is a genus of toadfishes found in the western Atlantic Ocean with one species (T. amazonica) found in the Amazon River and some of its tributaries.
Recording for the live percussion took place at Sounds Studio in Iceland, while outdoor sounds were recorded at the Mamori Artlab Workshop on the Amazon River, Brazil.
The TSS Earnslaw made a brief cameo appearance in the movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) as an Amazon River boat.
After his admission to the Society of Jesus, he was sent by his superiors to the missions of South America in 1706, and seven years later was appointed superior-general and visitor of all the missions of the Amazon embracing a tract of over 3000 miles.
In 1916, he went with the Rice Expedition, led by Alexander H. Rice, Jr., to the Amazon and Brazil.
while still a student at Hitotsubashi University, he cofounded and participated in a university team that descended the entire length of the Amazon, thereafter travelling around south America.
Serious first became interested in Albert Einstein when he was travelling down the Amazon River and saw a local wearing a t-shirt with a picture of a physicist on it.
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The cockatoo dwarf cichlid is found in the Amazon River basin, in tributaries of the Ucayali, Amazon and Solimões rivers from the Pachitea River to Tabatinga in Peru and Colombia where it lives in small shallow streams or lagoon-like waters in the rain forest.
It is found in forest (especially, but not exclusively, humid) and nearby wooded habitats in the Amazon north of the Amazon River and west of the Ucayali River in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
Other localized, small populations occur notably on four tributary rivers: the central Tapajós River, lower Madeira River, lower Rio Negro, and lower Ucayali River; also on the Amazon River, one region downstream of the Tapajós-Amazon River confluence.
The range of the Cobalt-winged Parakeet is in the extreme western Amazon Basin in Brazil's states of Amazonas, Acre, and Rondônia, part of the North Region; also from north to south, southernmost Venezuela, eastern Colombia-Ecuador-Peru, and northern and central Bolivia, and in Bolivia within the tributary rivers to the Madeira River flowing northeast to the Amazon River.
The presence of Dutch, French, and English explorers in the estuary of the Amazon River has concurred for the settlement of Portuguese expeditionaries in the current territory of the State of Pará, and also for the expedition of Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco which, in 1616, has founded the city of Belém.
The 300 km long Jamunda river originates in the plateau Serra do Jatapu near the division of the northern Brazilian States of Roraima, Amazonas and Pará, from there it flows down, forming the natural division between Amazonas and Pará, crossing the Nhamunda-Mapuera national ecological reservation (EG033) before joining the Amazon River near the small village of Nhamundá.
Lábrea fever, also known as Lábrea's black fever and Lábrea hepatitis, is a lethal tropical viral infection discovered in the 1950s in the city of Lábrea, in the Brazilian Amazon basin, where it occurs mostly in the area south of the Amazon River, in the states of Acre, Amazonas and Rondônia
Modern explorers and geographers, however, have used the tiniest trickles of water to determine the source of the Amazon, Nile, and other rivers.
Populations found in the south-eastern Amazon Basin (south of the Amazon River and east of the Madeira River) were formerly included in this species, but were described as a new species, the Cryptic Forest Falcon, in 2003.
The rivers in the Amazon Basin, going upstream are the following: Amazon River, (Tocantins, Araguaia— east of the Xingu), Xingu River, Madeira, and Marañón-Ucayali, (in Amazonian Peru).
Santa Rosa de Yavari is an Amazonian town in the Mariscal Ramón Castilla Province in the Loreto Region of Peru, located in an island in the Amazon River in front of the cities of Leticia (Colombia) and Tabatinga (Brazil).
Following the realisation that the Sulphur-breasted Parakeet was a valid species, the first records of living birds were from east of Óbidos on the northern bank of the lower Amazon River in Pará, Brazil.
The sprawling film celebrates international workers movements along six major rivers: the Volga, Mississippi, Ganges, Nile, Amazon and the Yangtze.
He might then, by his knowledge of bird ranges, state where the tape had been made—Zimmer gives the example of "south bank of the Amazon between the Rios Madeira and Tapajos".
The range of the Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher is mainly in the southern Amazon Basin, and in the east limited by the Amazon River; in the southeast, its range extends eastward including Ilha de Marajo and the last downstream region of only the Tocantins River, of the Araguaia-Tocantins River system.
Yellow-crowned Elaenia is found in the Amazon Basin along the major river course of the Amazon, also the outlet of the adjacent Tocantins River, then after an interruption in the range along the Amazon River, it is along Amazon drainages from eastern Peru, and Ecuador along the river corridors.