Francisco, Karl Edward C.

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Hottest River in the World

By: Nas Daily

https://www.facebook.com/nasdaily/videos/276737820265966

We all know that the Amazon is one of the most dangerous places in the world.
The Shanay-Timpishka, also known as La Bomba, is a tributary of the Amazon River,
called the "only boiling river in the world". It is 6.4 km long. It is known for the very high
temperature of its waters—from 45°C to nearly 100°C. The Boiling River is a natural
feature: a non-volcanic, geothermal feature flowing at anomalously high rates. One
hypothesis about the origins of the Boiling River is that a company drilling for gas
accidentally ruptured a geothermal system, as happened in 2007 in Lusi, Indonesia.

A Ted original was brought to the world entitled The Boiling river was made by an
author named Andrés Ruzo who told the different cases why he pursued on tackling this
story. He first heard the story of the Boiling River as a boy in Lima from his grandfather
as part of a legend of a lost city of gold in the Amazon. Much later, when he was working
on his PhD in geophysics, he started looking at this detail from a scientific viewpoint. The
focus of his dissertation was to create the first detailed heat flow map of Peru in order to
identify areas of potential geothermal energy. When looking at the heat of the earth,
naturally hot springs, fumaroles, and volcanoes catch his attention. One day, his
colleagues from the Peruvian government called him in to look at this map they were
about to publish. He took a look at it and saw there were some hot springs in the Amazon,
and some of them were really quite hot. So he asked them: Hey, do you guys remember
that detail in the legend about a river that boils deep in the Amazon?

There are two levels to that. On one side, it's the personal expectations you might
have for what is possible—and what is impossible. We rely on experts, and it becomes
very easy to outsource your thinking, so to speak. In a way, that's what happened to him.
he asked a bunch of experts for their thoughts about the Boiling River. Most said it's just
a legend. One professor even told him, Stop asking stupid questions; it's making you look
bad. But what do we really know? He thinks that that's a very interesting question now
more than ever. If you go online, you hear so many opinions, some that are qualified,
others that are not. Wondering what you really know is a very positive exercise that we
can all do.

This video became a trending video because of the knowledge it holds and that
knowledge enables our thirst for knowing new things and knowing another mystery from
the amazon. I know for sure that each and every person in this earth wondered once in
their life on what the amazon holds. The stories brought to us by experts molds our
imagination on what to expect and what to think whenever given the topic of the amazon.
References:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/03/160313-boiling-river-amazon-
geothermal-science-conservation-ngbooktalk/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/south-america/peru/articles/peru-
mysterious-boiling-river-that-can-burn-you-to-death/

https://www.businessinsider.com/boiling-river-kills-animals-ted-2016-2