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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 19783064" data-attributes="member: 158020">-The Boiling River- Deep in the Amazon rainforest, in Mayantuyacu, Peru, flows a river so  hot its water actually boils. The locals call it “Shanay-timpishka”  which loosely translates to “boiled with the heat of the sun.” They  believe that the hot water is released by a giant serpent called  Yacumama, “Mother of the Waters,” who is represented by a large serpent  head-shaped boulder at the river’s headwaters.   The river is about  25 meters wide and 6 meters deep, but only 6.4 km long.The water  temperature ranges between 50 and 90 degree centigrade, with small  portions touching 100 degrees, hot enough to cause third-degree burns  within seconds. Many unfortunate animals have fallen into the river and  got killed.While there are documented hot springs in the Amazon,  nothing is as large as Shanay-timpishka. <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HXDwIhMceoE/VsgUUC-F-GI/AAAAAAABL1Y/2BOGLTXCm0I/mayantuyacu-boiling-river-66.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Each  year, a handful of tourists visit Mayantuyacu to experience the  traditional medicinal practices of the Asháninka people. But aside from a  few obscure references in petroleum journals from the 1930s, scientific  documentation of the river is non-existent. Somehow, this natural  wonder has managed to elude widespread notice for over seventy five  years. For most Peruvians, the river is only a legend. Geologists  dismissed it because they argued that it would take a tremendous amount  of geothermal heat to boil even a small section of a river, and the  Amazon basin lies 400 miles from the nearest active volcano.   Andrés  Ruzo, a geothermal scientist at the Southern Methodist University, had  no reason to believe the river exists, but the stories intrigued him.  Ruzo first heard about the river from his grandfather when he was twelve  years old. According to the story he was told, the river was discovered  by Spanish conquistadors when they headed deep into the rainforest in  search of gold. Some of the men who returned spoke about a dangerous  land filled with poisoned water, man-eating snakes, starvation, disease,  and a river that boils from below. Twenty years after his  grandfather told him about the river, Ruzo finally found someone who had  actually seen the river —his own aunt.   Ruzo has now written a book on the phenomenon, The Boiling River: Adventure and Discovery in the Amazon.  He is also conducting detailed geothermal studies of the boiling river,  and collaborating with microbial ecologists to investigate the  extremophile organisms living in its scalding waters. Ruzo hopes that  his book will bring attention to this natural wonder and the increasing  threat it has been facing from illegal loggers.   “In the middle of  my PhD, I realized, this river is a natural wonder,” Ruzo said. “And  it’s not going to be around unless we do something about it.” <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yKhE9d5GRL0/VsgUVDOKBHI/AAAAAAABL1c/mWWjKNe9XKU/mayantuyacu-boiling-river-510.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZO8Fci8xuGs/VsgUWAO8rZI/AAAAAAABL1g/AoCFpjKWEWA/mayantuyacu-boiling-river-46.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8HwvsANwfWc/VsgUXfl5dnI/AAAAAAABL1k/S6qcTEHBjdY/mayantuyacu-boiling-river-12.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mXhD8379XVc/VsgUYmLWyjI/AAAAAAABL1o/u0Gv1BZBrBc/mayantuyacu-boiling-river-22.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--nUf7Xoh1GY/VsgUZWEeQUI/AAAAAAABL1s/mGstHtBLQlM/mayantuyacu-boiling-river-32.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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