What is the Amazon River?

Welcome back to History's Not Boring! Join Mira and Finn as we journey deep into the wildest place on Earth: the mighty Amazon River! Did you know the Amazon stretches for 4,000 miles through a massive, mysterious jungle? We're traveling back in time to meet the daring and sometimes lost explorers who tried to map it! First, we’ll follow a Spanish explorer named Francisco de Orellana, who got totally lost in 1541 and became the first European to travel the entire length of the river! He even named it after legendary women warriors he claimed to have battled! But he wasn't the last to brave the jungle. You won't believe the wild true stories of rubber barons building a giant opera house right in the middle of the rainforest, or the mysterious Percy Fawcett who vanished without a trace in 1925 while searching for a secret Lost City! Best of all, we'll learn about the brilliant Indigenous peoples who didn't just survive in this extreme jungle—they completely thrived there for over 10,000 years! Grab your compass and your map, because this jungle adventure is going to be epic!