T he Amazon river is the largest drainage system in the world in terms of water volume and its drainage basin. The 6,400 ...

The ancient mountains of the Andes are home to spectacled bears ... the headwaters of the Amazon River. In the past, polylepis forests covered vast areas of the mountain range, but today, after ...

There are a couple of rivers David mentions in this clip but the focus is on the biggest of them all, the Amazon. He starts in the shadow of the Andes ... now the river has left the mountains ...

Cerro El Cono is a solitary, pyramidal hill in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest whose origins remain mysterious and that holds ...

Deep within the Amazon rainforest ... from the rest of the mountain range. On a clear day, Cerro El Cono can be seen from as far as 400 kilometers away in the Andes Mountains.

Accelerated soil erosion is a common and environmentally destructive consequence of development, especially in mountain regions ... previous soil erosion research projects in the Ecuadorian Andes ...

Where the Amazon River starts has been a topic of debate for centuries. Its western source is located in the Andes Mountains, just 100 miles from the Pacific Ocean. Its mouth lies on the ...

The Amazon river is one of the longest in the world. It is in the Amazon rainforest. Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall. The Andes mountains are in seven different countries ...