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unusual facts about Amazonian


Pepe Lucho

Gerhard Reinke is initially smitten with the cute little monkey; however, slightly after the revelation of its name, Pepe Lucho begins attacking Gerhard and Amazonian villagers alike.


Adolpho Ducke

In 1954 his concerns about the future of the Amazonian forest led him made a suggestion to the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) for the creation of a nature reserve.

Amazonian Kichwas

Amazonian Kichwas consists of two different ethnic peoples, Napu-Kichwa (living in the Napo and Sucumbíos provinces, with some parts of their community living in Colombia and Peru) and Canelo-Kichwa (also referred to as Kichwa del Pastanza, living in the Pastanza province).

Amazonian languages

Arawakan languages: a family basically circling the Amazonian region.

Amazonian pop art

Originally, it is an mural art that blends prominently the colorful amazonian culture, European motifs and commercial characters, which could be influenced by American pop art when the era of cable television came to the city, like MTV.

Blue Morpho Ayahuasca center

It soon became clear to him that many Westerners would benefit from similar spiritual work, so he established Blue Morpho, named after the bright blue Amazonian butterfly of the same name.

COICA

Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin, Peruvian organization that coordinates national Amazonian indigenous organizations

Ecuadorian–Peruvian War

As a result of the war, Peru occupied almost the entire Ecuadorian coastal province of El Oro and some towns of the Andean province of Loja, besides driving the Ecuadorians back along the whole line of dispute along the Amazonian border.

Empress of Blandings

Graduate of an Agricultural College, Amazonian Miss Simmons tends her charge well in Pigs Have Wings, and returns to the post in Galahad at Blandings, only to elope at the end with a nephew of Lord Emsworth.

Ethnographic film

Napoleon Chagnon and Tim Asch's two famous films, The Ax Fight and The Feast (filmed in the 1960s), are intimately documented ethnographic accounts of an Amazonian rainforest people, the Yanomamo.

Gilberto Righi

In addition, his Amazonian material can be found at both the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, in Manaus, and the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, in Belém.

Giving Up the Gun

As she plays her way through the competition, her opponents feature a handful of characters including blonde twin sisters, a samurai, an Amazonian woman, Joe Jonas and Jake Gyllenhaal.

Holochilus sciureus

Amazonian marsh rats feed primarily on grass stems, although they also eat some seeds, and small quantities of sedges, other plants, and even small invertebrates.

Huasca

Ayahuasca, psychoactive concoction prepared from the Amazonian vine Banisteriopsis caapi

Javary River

The river is one of the best places to observe Amazonian wildlife, including the Amazon river dolphin and tucuxi.

Jenny Greenteeth

Jinny Greenteeth was the name of a fictional character in DC comics 2011 crossover title Flashpoint, working alongside characters such as Godiva and Etrigan the Demon to free the British Isles from Amazonian occupation.

José Márcio Ayres

Ayres' doctorate in primatology at Cambridge, in 1986, was for his thesis Uakaris and Amazonian flooded forest, the field work for which was undertaken on the upper Amazon River floodplain, near Tefé.

Jürgen Haffer

From his studies on the Amazonian avifauna, he authored several papers on Neotropical ornithology and devised his Amazonian refugia theory to explain the rapid diversification of the Neotropical fauna in Pleistocene times.

Kiruba

This unusual name is derived from a reading Diana Rueda had done on a brave chieftain of the ethnicity of the Amazonian Shuar (Quiruba), who bravely stood up to the Spanish conquerors in the city of Macas.

Kuding

Ilex guayusa- also known as "guayusa", is an Amazonian tree of the holly genus, native to the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest.

Lawrence M. Small

In 2004, Small pleaded guilty to violating federal bird-protection laws (ESA, CITES, MBTA) by owning Amazonian tribal artifacts that contained feathers of protected bird species.

Lost City of Z

Using Google Earth, three scientists may have found the lost city in the upper Amazonian basin, near the Brazilian-Bolivian border.

Mew Azama

Her first internationally-noticed role was as the amazonian Sailor Jupiter in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon.

My Living Doll

The series starred Bob Cummings as Dr. Bob McDonald, a psychiatrist who is given care of Rhoda Miller, a lifelike android (played by Julie Newmar) in the form of a sexy, Amazonian female, by her creator, a scientist who did not want her to fall into the hands of the military.

Nilokeras Scopulus

Two final episode of flooding from the Echus Chasma region to the south occurred in Kasei Valles during Amazonian times (<1.8 Gya).

Puyo, Pastaza

Located between Baños, and the Amazonian cities of Tena and Macas, Puyo is the commercial, cultural and political capital of the region.

Rio Protocol

Despite this, limited skirmishes continued to occur through the months of August and September in the Ecuadorian provinces of El Oro and Loja, as well as in the Amazonian lands.

River Tyrannulet

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

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).

TIBÁ

The name TIBÁ comes from the Tupi language (Brazilian Amazonian tribe) meaning "A place where many people meet".

White-browed Hawk

The bird's largest ranges are two areas: to the southwest in Amazonian eastern Peru, and to the south-central Amazon Basin to a combined headwater region of the Guaporé River and the Tapajós River.


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