There are many indigenous communities living in the rainforest today. The Amazon River is the longest in South America, and the second longest river on Earth after the Nile in Africa. The source ...

Amazon flows through as many as nine countries, including Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil. It is worth noting that the river covers about 40 percent of South America, and over 30 million ...

becoming the first person to walk the length of the Amazon entirely under his own power, the first to travel the river’s length against the flow, and the first to walk across the South American ...

By Fabio Zuker Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Peru last November and inaugurated the Chancay Port, a megaproject rising from the Pacific coast. This wasn’t just a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Compared to many of the world’s river systems, the Orinoco is relatively intact ... WWF is working on the ground in Venezuela and Colombia with local communities to protect one of South America's most ...