Amazon - natural wonder of the world

• Amazon - natural wonder of the world

Amazon has always occupied the minds of researchers to study it until now equip the expedition on the river make films and write books that capture the first page. Today we invite you to a small Photo Tour of the Amazon River.

Amazonka- river in South America, according to Brazilian researchers, the longest river in the world and the largest in the world by size of the pool, deep and the length of the river system.

In 2011, according to the World Contest Amazon is recognized as one of the seven natural wonders of the world.

Amazon opened the conquistador Francisco de Orellana, the first European to cross the South America in the widest part of it. In the summer of 1542 his unit allegedly saw a tribe of legendary Amazons and engaged them in battle. Today, it is believed that it was a Native American woman who fought side by side with men, or just long-haired Indians, whom the Spaniards took over the women. De Orellana originally wanted to call the river its name, but after the fight he stopped on a variant of "Amazon".

The first Europeans sailed the entire length of the river from the mouth to the source in 1639 the Portuguese Pedro Teixeira. One of his companions, a Jesuit Cristóbal de Acuña, published the first description of the journey down the Amazon.

Amazonia surprising wealth of fauna and flora. A vast area inhabited by more than a million different species of plants and animals, and this area is no exaggeration to call the world's gene pool.

The scientists claim that 10 square kilometers of rainforest accounts for 1, 5 thousand. Kinds of flowers, 750 species of trees, 125 species of mammals, 400 species of birds and countless invertebrates. Many of their species are not even described or identified.

The Amazon basin is spread and the world's largest rainforest. This exceptional vegetable natural formation described Alexander von Humboldt during his travels through South America in the years 1799-1804, describing it as Gil (from the Greek "gileston" - forest).

The animals come to drink water, near the shore were watching anaconda - the boas, the largest of the snakes, hunted and in the water, where they can even strangle caiman.