Brazil’s remaining Amazon forest is roughly divided in half by the Purus River, just west of the notorious BR-319 (Manaus-Porto Velho) highway. To the west of the river lies the vast “Trans ...

According to the Associated Press, the young individual emerged from the rainforest near the rural village of Bela Rosa located on the Purus River. Barefoot and clothed in a loincloth, the man ...

The encounter occurred around 7 p.m. Wednesday in Bela Rosa, a community along the Purus River in the southwestern Amazon. Barefoot and wearing a small loincloth, the young man appeared calm and ...

The Purus River, which flows towards the regional capital city of Manaus, undergoes one of the largest annual variations in water levels on the planet. When it floods, large areas of forest become ...

A glimpse of the unique, biodiverse moist forest ecosystem found on the divide between the Purus and Madeira river basins. Image by Gustavo Faleiros. Visit the southern part of Amazonas state ...

The encounter took place near the riverine community of Bela Rosa, situated along the Purus River, on Wednesday evening. Footage shows the man, barefoot and wearing a small loincloth, appearing ...

The encounter occurred at around 7pm on Wednesday in Bela Rosa, a community along the Purus River in the southwestern Amazon ...

As part of a conservation management project in the lower Purús River, a tributary of the Amazon that rises in Peru and empties into the Amazon upstream of Manaus, Brazil, Antunes was reviewing the ...

They suggested that in a time before the Andes had formed, this gradient caused the river (as it was then) to flow from East ...

Relative Elevation Model of the floodplain of the Purus River, South America. Example of low OHV with prevalent neck cutoff. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy ...