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Source of the Amazon River identificated - 1996
Source of the Amazon River identificated - 1996
Jacek Pałkiewicz2006-06-18 21:57:19
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of this adventure.
I have often wondered, during my passages through the Amazon jungle, who knew from where the King of Rivers springs. While hundreds of satellites continuously search and photograph every comer of our planet and man turns his attention towards the exploration of space and of oceanic abysses, there still remain geographical doubts which lead us to great discussions. One of these j doubts was the original source of the Amazon which had not been located exactly enough. Until the fifties, it was the Maranon which was considered the principal source of the Amazon River. Then it was established that the Ucayali River was longer and, consequently, research was oriented toward the search for the early evidences of this river.
In 1953, French explorer Michael Perrin confirmed Colonel Gerardo Dianderas' thesis that stated, as of 1934, the source of this river was found at Caylloma (department of Arequipa). Although the fact was not initially taken into account geographers accepted this statement after twenty years.
In 1969, the English journalist Nicholas Asheshov, along with Captain John Ridg-way of the Royal Parachute Regiment, maintained that the origin was to be found in the environs of the Mount Minaspata zone which they had recently visited, but very few people believed them. Ridgway is famous for rowing across the Atlantic Ocean.
That same year, Doctor Carlos; Penaherrera del Aguila published the book called: GENERAL GEOGRAPHY OF PERU, where he points out that, according to the Instituto Geografico Nacional's studies, the origin of the said river was at the Mismi Nevado (I5°3O'49" South Lat. and 71 °40'36" west) situated in Caylloma 45 kilometers from Mount Huagra. Two years later the photographer Loren Mclntire, accompanied by mountaineer Richard Bradshaw and geographer Victor Tupa, organized an expedition sponsored by the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC and the International Geodesic Service. Its purpose was to verify the information
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