Amazon 3.0 - Part 5 - Up the Cunucunama
July 22nd 2008 Amazon 3.0 - Part 5 - Up the Cunucunama
June 30
Blackwater at last. On the sixth day Iguana left the Orinoco, heading up the Cunucunuma, a blackwater river that feeds into the Orinoco about fifteen kilometers downstream from the branching of the Orinoco and Casiquiare. Blackwater rivers are slightly acidic, just enough to prevent - or at least to severely diminish -
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