A mysterious, four-mile long river, deep in the
heart of the Amazon, is so hot that it boils.
The river has long been a legend in Peru, but
when geoscientist Andrés Ruzo's heard about it,
he thought such a phenomenon was impossible.
He believed that it would require a huge amount
of geothermal heat to boil even a small river, and
the Amazon basin is far from any active
volcanoes.
But then, in 2011, Ruzo saw the legendary boiling
river with his own eyes.
Ruzo first heard about the Mayantuyacu river
when his grandfather told him a story about how
Spanish conquistadors killed the last Inca
emperor.
The story goes that after the murder, the Spanish
conquistador headed into the Amazon rainforest
in search of gold.
When they returned, the men spoke of a terrifying
experience that involved poisoned water, man-
eating snakes and a river that boils from below.
Twelve years later, at a family dinner, Ruzo heard
the river mentioned again when his aunt said that
she had visited it.
As a PhD student in geophysics at Southern
Methodist University, Ruzo wanted to find the
river for himself.
'I began asking that question. Could the boiling
river exist?, Ruzo said in Ted Talk.
'I asked colleagues from universities, the
government, oil, gas and mining companies, and
the answer was a unanimous no.
'And this makes sense. You see, boiling rivers do
exist in the world, but they're generally associated
with volcanoes. You need a powerful heat source
to produce such a large geothermal
manifestation.
Runzo discovered a four mile 'boiling river' in the
sacred geothermal healing site of the Asháninka
people in Mayantuyacu.
At its widest, it is 82ft (25 metres), and around
20ft (six metres) deep. The water is hot enough
to brew tea, according to a report in Gizmodo,
and in some parts, it boils over.
'Dipping my hand into the river would give me
third-degree burns in less than half a second,'
Ruzo told Ted.com 'Falling in could easily kill
me.'
The river boils because of fault-fed hot springs.
'As we have hot blood running through our veins
and arteries, so, too, the Earth has hot water
running through its cracks and faults,' Runzo
explained in a Ted speech.
'Where these arteries come to the surface, these
earth arteries, we'll get geothermal
manifestations: fumaroles, hot springs and in our
case, the boiling river.
Parts of the river are so hot that any animals that
falls in boils instantly.
'I've seen all sorts of animals fall in, and what's
shocking to me, is the process is pretty much the
same,' said Runzo.
'So they fall in and the first thing to go are the
eyes. Eyes, apparently, cook very quickly. They
turn this milky-white color. The stream is carrying
them.
'They're trying to swim out, but their meat is
cooking on the bone because it's so hot. So
they're losing power, losing power, until finally
they get to a point where hot water goes into
their mouths and they cook from the inside out.'
For some reason, the river has escaped scientific
scrutiny. But Ruzo is on a mission to change
that.
He has published a book, 'The Boiling River:
Adventure and Discovery in the Amazon,' that
publicises the river for the first time.
Ruzo's is now trying to save the boiling river. The
surrounding forest has been destroyed by logging
practices, and if action isn't taken, the area could
vanish entirely.
'In the middle of my PhD, I realized, this river is a
natural wonder,' Ruzo told Gizmodo. 'And it's not
going to be around unless we do something about
it.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3451773/Don-t-fall-legendary-river-BOILS-victims-alive-discovered-deep-heart-Amazon.html

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the God dat can crack a stone Wit an egg