Do you believe a river may boil over? A boiling river, indeed! In the Peruvian Amazon, there is a river that is concealed by a lush bush.
According to records, this river’s steaming turquoise waters, which are surrounded by 60-foot walls of lush green forest and stones, can reach temperatures of up to 200 degrees Fahrenheit. According to what the locals claim, this river is sacred, and the hot waters have therapeutic properties.
According to locals, young explorer Andrés Ruzo listened to his Peruvian grandfather recount the tale of Shanay-timpishka, the Boiling River, an ancient term that roughly translates to mean boiling with the heat of the sun. As a geophysicist, Ruzo made the decision to continue the testing to determine whether such a river existed. He started by drawing a thermal map of Peru and later uncovered one of the biggest geothermal phenomena on any continent: an extremely enormous hot area.
To view the Boiling River for himself, he reportedly embarked on an excursion to central Peru in November 2011. He learned that the river is guarded by the shaman of the remote healing center of Mayantuyacu, a little village. He obtained special authorization to investigate the water from the shaman there.
He discovered that the riverbank mud was too hot to walk on and that the water here can reach temperatures of up to 200 degrees Fahrenheit. And if you happen to fall into the water, you would quickly sustain third-degree burns.
Additionally, he discovered floating dead animals that may have fallen into the lake by accident and perished.
Ruzon took samples from several parts of the river and discovered that the water’s average temperature is a scorching 187 degrees Fahrenheit.
Ruzo thought this feature was strange because there isn’t any volcanic or magmatic activity close by. After doing some research and testing various theories, he came to the conclusion that the river’s high temperatures were being caused by a fault-led hydrothermal feature.
A giant serpent spirit known as Yacumama, or Mother of the Waters, is also said to have given birth to the hot and cold waters that warm the river.
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