For centuries, researchers and explorers have been seeking the beginnings of one of the world’s mightiest rivers - the Amazon river.
By many estimations, the Amazon may be the world's mightiest river. It has the largest drainage basin in the world and is also the largest in terms of water volume.
“The tricky thing about measuring the source of a river is the method you use dictates the result,” says Andrew Johnston, a manager at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.A Spanish stamp showing Francisco de Orellana. Another major Amazon River explorer, Czech Jesuit missionary Samuel Fritz, started his journey near Quito, Ecuador on the Napo River, much like Orellano. His initial goal wasn’t exploration so much as
Some other expeditions followed, including a National Geographic trip in 1983 led by Loren McIntyre, a photojournalist. McIntyre followed the Carhuasanta River upstream until he reached a lake, now named after him. Other expeditions followed to Mount Mismi, including one in the early 1980s by Jacques Cousteau’s son, Jean Michel Cousteau.More recently, in 1997 and 1998, Johnston ventured into the Amazon area as a geographer with the Smithsonian Institution.
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