Amazon - Atlas Obscura
Places near me Random place

25 Items Tagged

Amazon

Share Tweet
insects

Podcast: Amazon Night Hikes

Overcoming a fear of our multi-legged friends—at night, in the world's largest tropical rainforest.
The Podcast Team July 26, 2023
hotels

Podcast: Sinchi Warmi Amazon Lodge

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team April 6, 2022
Members of the Sarayaku indigenous community believe that the rainforest should have legal rights.
law

The Fight to Secure Rights for Rainforests

The Sarayaku people of Ecuador are seeking legal protection for Amazonian plants and animals.
Emily Laber-Warren April 30, 2021
Houses of the “Floating City,” located in front of the city of Manaus, on the Rio Negro, in the 1960s.
infrastructure

The Life and Death of the ‘Floating City’ of Manaus

To some, this Brazilian neighborhood was a tropical Venice. To others, it was a slum on the water.
Ignacio Amigo June 9, 2020
Real-life counterparts: the Scythian warrior women of the Caucuses.
mythology

To Work Out Like an Amazon, Limber Up and Find a Horse

The fearsome fighters of Greek mythology have a very real, very fit regimen to share.
Isaac Schultz May 29, 2020
Inside view of a representation of a communal structure from an Amazon village.
Manaus, Brazil

Museu do Homem do Norte (Northern Man Museum)

This anthropological museum offers a glimpse into the lives of the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon River Basin.
Yano's piranha-men will be sold September 20-23 in Tokyo's Asakusa neighborhood.
food

The World's First Piranha Ramen Is No Joke

It did start as one, though.
Luke Fater August 29, 2019
Fires are tearing through the Brazilian Amazon, including Altamira, pictured here on August 27, 2019.
forests

Scientists of the Future Will Unearth Traces of the Scorched Amazon Rainforest

Long after the forest stops burning, the effects of this year's fires will linger in the soil and water.
Jessica Leigh Hester August 28, 2019
A black-fronted tamarin.
forests

Two Tiny Monkeys Are Critical to Restoring the Amazon, With Their Poop

These tamarins have an affinity for disturbed rain forest.
Isaac Schultz July 29, 2019
Llanos de Moxos in Bolivia.
bones

Found: One of the Oldest Burial Sites in the Amazon

The discovery could change what we understand about the rainforest's ancient settlements.
Jonathan Carey April 26, 2019
At Shin Suzuran, Takano handles nettle leaves.
food

How Japanese Immigrants in the Amazon Created a New Cuisine

Native fish sashimi and green papaya pickles provided a taste of home.
Rafael Tonon December 28, 2018
An agouti, perhaps trying to remember where it last placed its Brazil nuts.
trees

Brazil Nuts Are Brought to You by Rodents

The snack wouldn’t exist without the help of one furry critter and its unusually sharp teeth.
Abbey Perreault September 14, 2018
El Panoptíco's smoked chicken with yuca and ají negro.
Gastro Obscura

Ají Negro

To make this hot sauce, first remove the poison.
Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas.
archaeology

Soil and Satellites Are Telling a New Story About Ancient Civilizations in the Amazon

With new technologies, scientists are looking for clues in manmade “terra preta.”
Katarina Zimmer March 20, 2018
The beautiful Brunfelsia grandiflora flower.
Gastro Obscura

Chiric Sanango

A vibrant, lesser-known hallucinogen of the Amazon.
A cup of masato de yuca.
Gastro Obscura

Masato de Yuca

A sacred alcoholic drink made from chewed and fermented yuca.
Jaboticaba winds its way around tree trunks.
Gastro Obscura

Jaboticaba

The Brazilian tree gets covered by its tart purple fruit.
Wrapped juanes with plantains, hard-boiled eggs, and olives.
Gastro Obscura

Juane

Peru’s leaf-wrapped rice ball might be named after John the Baptist’s decapitated head.