Expedition Week

Explorer: Lost Cities of the Amazon

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Image: Kelly Hearn (middle) with Indian Amazon Sateré Mawé Tribe on the Amazon River

Lost Cities of the Amazon

Over the centuries, explorers traded tales of a lost civilization amid the dense Amazonian rainforest. A new generation of explorers have uncovered remarkable evidence that could reinvent our understanding of the Amazon and the people who lived there.

Lost Cities of the Amazon , The Search for El Dorado , In 1542, a Spanish expedition turns to an epic journey across South America; the writings of a priest survive to share the story.

Lost Cities of the Amazon , Unearthing the Lost City , To the untrained eye, it was a trench - but to this archaeologist, it was the discovery of a lifetime.

Lost Cities of the Amazon , Ancient Urban Amazon , Deforestation and unsustainable agricultural practices threaten the survival of Amazonian inhabitants.

Lost Cities of the Amazon,Kuikuro warriors.

Lost Cities of the Amazon,Kelly Hearn (middle) with Indian Amazon Sateré Mawé Tribe on the Amazon River.

Lost Cities of the Amazon,Women of Sateré Mawé.

Lost Cities of the Amazon,Sateré Mawé tribe.

Lost Cities of the Amazon,Kuikuro legend.

Lost Cities of the Amazon,School for Sateré Mawé children.

Lost Cities of the Amazon,Xingu river.

Lost Cities of the Amazon,1,000-year-old ceramics.

Lost Cities of the Amazon,Kuikuro warriors.

Water representing National Geographic Channel show Lost Cities of the Amazon

LAND OF THE LEGEND

Learn more about the river and territory that surround the legend of the lost civilization:

The total length of the Amazon River is about 4,000 miles?the distance from New York City to Rome.

It is estimated that the Amazon discharges between nine million and 32 million gallons of water per second.

The Amazon deposits a daily average of three million tons of sediment near its mouth.

The Atlantic Ocean changes color 200 miles away from the Amazon because of the outpouring of water and sediment from the mouth of the river.

The width of the river ranges from as narrow as one mile to as wide as 35 miles.

It is suspected that the Amazon rain forest could be as old as 100 million years.

2,500 fish species exist in the Amazon basin?more than what is found in the entire Atlantic Ocean.

Night is winter in the Amazon because greater temperature differences occur between day and night than between opposite seasons.

The warm and humid climate yields an average temperature of 79 degrees.

Yearly rainfall averages 80 inches.

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