Start of the Amazon

Most of our time in South America has been centered on the mighty Amazon River. As a kind of finality we came to the river's source. A few years ago they discovered a new tributary that increased the length to make it longer than the Nile. It is indeed the mightiest of all.

From this watershed, water flows to the West into the Colca River and on to the Pacific. From the far side of the range the water flows East and makes its way into the Amazon and the Atlantic.

It is for the river and was for us quite a journey.