The Amazon River is fed by a maze of tributaries that provide a massive amount of water. During the wet season, the mouth of the Amazon dumps a mind blowing 82,286,000 gal/s. Yes you read that right… Gallons per second!!

We will be headed up one of these tributaries, the Rio Nanay.

For more about this amazing river system and the ecosystem that centers around it, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_River