The Amazon rainforest, covering much of northwestern Brazil and extending into Colombia, Peru, and other South American countries, is the world’s largest tropical rainforest, famed for its biodiversity.
It’s crisscrossed by thousands of rivers, including the ‘Shanay Timpishka’ river. A river in the Amazon forest that a lot of people do not know about. Interestingly this river has a unique story that can kill us all.
Shanay Timpishka River or La Bomba
A river in the Amazon jungle which is a sanctuary for the indigenous people around is said to be boiling and can cause animals that fall into the river to die of heat.
Referred to as Shanay Timpishka which means boiling with the heat of the sun, referring to the strangeness of the river. Another name for this river is La Bomba and is located in the Amazon rainforest in Peru.
Boiling Temperature Until It Can Bring Death
In general, we know that hot springs have magma that is able to heat water below the earth’s surface and close to volcanoes. But this 6-kilometer-long river boils along its path and the distance of the nearest volcano is 700 kilometers.
The river, which is 25 meters wide and 6 meters deep, is recorded at 45c to 100c degrees Celsius, quite hot and it is not surprising that fallen animals will die.
This incredible river actually boils because beneath the earth’s surface there is geothermal. Fractures on the surface of the earth cause the water heated in the earth to start coming out, and this is the reason why some countries do not have volcanoes but there are hot springs.
Strangely enough, the Indigenous people there take this river water to make hot drinks. Sounds a bit weird but that’s the reality. Humans can still swim, only when it rains heavily because it is mixed with cold water. Animals that take the risk of swimming in this river actually can even cause death to them.
Sources: Great Big Story