As a child, Andrés Ruzo, a geothermal scientist from Lima, Peru, heard legends of the Spanish conquistadors’ failed quest to discover the lost city of gold. They were peppered with colorful details, ...
It's a place where few living things can survive in the water. Deep in the world's largest rainforest, there is a boiling river. Found in eastern central Peru, it is a small tributary that eventually ...
Scientists studying Peru’s Boiling River found 11% fewer tree species for every 1°C (1.8°F) increase in temperature, offering insights into how climate change might affect the Amazon Rainforest. The ...
When Northstar Travel Group explorer at large Arnie Weissmann spent 12 days at Peru's Boiling River to write about how tourism might impact the site, he shot a lot of video as well. The resulting ...
In the Peruvian Amazon, about four hours by rough road from Pucallpa, a river runs at an average of 86 degrees Celsius, roughly 187 degrees Fahrenheit, along a stretch that measures somewhere between ...
In a remote part of Peruvian Amazonia is a river where the water temperature can reach 210 degrees. Stranger yet, it’s hundreds of miles from the nearest volcano. For the past 18 years, a friend of ...
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