Amazon basin

Humans were very quick to find ways to take a plant from one area and transport it elsewhere, particularly using llama caravans.

The llama became a really central domesticated animal that helped These early societies moved goods like macaw feathers from the Amazon or ayahuasca components, again from the Amazonian Basin, or bringing textiles and other goods from the coast to the central region.

So you have these very complicated networks, sort of a little bit like the Silk Road that you find in Eurasia, that were taking goods over long distances.

So for the Chavin people, using Vilca was restricted to a select group of people.

So Bolivia, from the extreme altitude with beautiful glaciers, you just hop over those mountains and then you're almost at sea level inside of the Amazon with lost jungles.

And then you have the lowlands just south of the Amazons.

That would make the remnant third part.

And that section of Bolivia is also rather diverse in and of itself because it's not only plains, but you also have valleys and these transitional areas when you go up to the highlands of Bolivia.

It's almost like semi-arid.

I think most people, when you think of Brazil, you think of tropical rainforests in the Amazon Basin.

This is scrubby, almost sort of savannah-type vegetation.

So I think we're quite lucky in that sense.

And they do so because humic substances have deeply studied measurable physiological impacts on the aquatic environment.

For fish species that evolved in the heavily vegetated, slow-moving waters of the Amazon River Basin, like many tetras, epistogrammas, and discuss these compounds are a vital part of their natural ecology.

Absolutely.

Humic acids naturally lower the pH and soften the water by binding with available minerals.

It is a town the jungle unfortunately did not finish burying when the rubber boom collapsed.

It is so far up the Amazon basin that its principal contacts with the outer world are smugglers and fugitives from Peruvian justice who came across the mountains, and nobody at all goes there except for his sins.

I don't know what took Jose Ribiera there.

I went because one of the three known specimens of Morpho andiensis was captured nearby by Bowler in nineteen eleven, and a lunatic millionaire in Chicago was willing to pay for a try at a fourth for his collection.

I arranged to be paddled up to his clearing next morning.

It was on the river, of course.

There are no footpaths in Amazon Basin jungle.

The river flowing past Milion is a broad, deep stream perhaps two hundred yards wide.

And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

Uh, this is part two of our two-parter on Percy Fawcett and Manuscript 512 and things going on in the Amazon Basin in the early 20th century.

Uh, and if you didn't listen to Monday's episode, you're gonna be a skosh confused today, so I highly recommend-

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