Life in the Great Wetlands

Peru: Amazonia (1x3)

Exibido em:: Out 22, 2014

At the gates to the Amazon, hides a remarkable and nearly unexplored world. It’s called Pacaya Samiria or the ‘jungle of the mirrors’, the place where sky and water merge as one. This great wetland zone shelters a stunning variety of vertebrates and invertebrates, both land and aquatic. In this constantly submerged land, pink dolphins, giant otters, jaguars and spider monkeys organize themselves and adapt to affront the complex water cycle. Feed by dozens of tributaries that careen down from the Andean Cordillera and an extraordinary quantity of rainfall, Pacaya Samiria is an immense freshwater reservoir… the Amazon’s faucet.