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This special kind of Water Lily has the scientific name of Victoria Amazonica.

It is an aquatic plant of the Nymphaeaceae family, typical of the Amazon region. It has a large circle-shaped leaf that sits on the surface of the water, and can reach up to 2.5 meters in diameter and can withstand up to 40 kilos if well distributed on its surface.

Its flower (flowering from early March to July) can be white, lilac, purple, pink and even yellow, it expels a sweet nocturnal fragrance of the apricot, called by the Europeans of "lacustrine rose", remains open until the early the next morning.

(From Wikipedia)

Botanic Garden/ Rio de Janeiro

What united us as true sisters were the honor, the truth, the strength of the fight against falsehood, charming words from those who want to deceive, steal, lie or look at us like meat in the butcher's shop. Each of us has a brother who shares the same principles: equality, friendship, trust, honesty, loyalty.

We fight if needed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLNktQr3dyI

off a boat. Other than size, the amazon and green kingfishers are very similar indeed. the amazon carries its crest more prominently and white wing spots only visible in flight.

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Entrance to a small village

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Not the bookshop - the ancient female warrior. This is the head of what was once a full figure of a wounded amazon. This you cannot tell from just this head, of course, but this is a Roman copy (from ca 150 A.D. - made of marble) of an older statue which was quite popular. So with just this head, you can tell what original this was a copy of. And hence which motif it was. There was no mass-production back in the day, as we know it, but that did not mean everything existed in just one copy.

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Transpantaneira - Pantanal

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Egmond aan Zee, Noord-Holland, the Netherlands

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(Eubucco richardsoni) B28I2393 Napo Canopy - Peruvian Amazonia

Arriving by boat to Leticia, Amazonas

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Navegando por el Rio Negro en una canoa en plena selva amazónica.... verde verde y más verde.....

"All alone to the Amazon"

The director was a well-read man. Or was it his wife, which was a teacher in the near village? Or both?

Abandoned Textile Mill A. (1851-2004)

Relaxing on a bridge in Iquitos, Peru

Famous sculpture of Equestrian Amazon in front of the ‚Neue Museum‘ in Berlin. Nofretete seems to watch enchanted. Her 4000 year old bust in the museum is one of the highlights of Berlin’s museum.

Volvo 131 B18 Amazon at the Schuppen 1 in Bremen.

Manuas, Amazon, Brazil, July 2016

stranded

Lucky to get, out of about 25 attempts, two fairly decent, almost focused, bigly cropped, shots of this bird as he kept ahead of us in our bobbing zodiac on the Penas Blancas river

Locomotive BNSF 6598 en UM sur un double-stack en direction de l'Est (Crozier, 23 mars 2023)

Comunidade Indígena

Aldeia Cipiá

Praia do Tupé

Rio Negro - Amazônia

Amazonas, Brasil

Songkhla town , Thailand

The Amazon rainforest is currently experiencing a significant increase in wildfires, with 9,000 fires burning simultaneously across Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru. The fires are largely set intentionally to clear land for cattle ranching, farming, and logging, and have been exacerbated by the dry season. The number of fires is an 80% increase over the same period last year. The Amazon is often called "the lungs of the world," absorbing greenhouse gases that would otherwise harm the planet. The fires are destroying the homes of indigenous tribes, threatening millions of animals, and even darkening the skies over major cities. The impact of the fires on the Amazon's biodiversity will be significant, with between 40,000 and 73,400 square miles of the rainforest impacted by fires since 2001, affecting 95% of all Amazonian species and as many as 85% of species that are listed as threatened in this region.

DDG

Black River and Amazon River

The Meeting of Waters

The Amazon River, located in South America, is the largest river in the world in volume of water and the largest river in the world in extension, with 6.992,06 km. The Amazon River originates from the source of the Apurimac River, on the slopes of Nevado Mismi, in the Andes Mountains, Peru, at 5,600 meters above sea level. Source: All Matter.

O Encontro das Águas

O rio Amazonas, localizado na América do Sul, é o maior rio do mundo em volume de água e o maior rio do mundo em extensão, com 6.992,06 km. O rio Amazonas tem sua origem na nascente do rio Apurimac, na encosta do Nevado Mismi, na Cordilheira dos Andes, no Peru, a 5.600 metros acima do nível do mar. Fonte: Toda Matéria.

Rio Amazonas e Rio Negro

Amazônia

Manaus

Amazonas, Brasil

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The turquoise tanager is a medium-sized passerine bird. This tanager is a resident bird from Trinidad, Colombia and Venezuela south to Bolivia and much of Brazil. It is restricted to areas with humid forest, with its primary distribution being the Amazon, while a disjunct population occurs in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. The latter population is sometimes considered a separate species, the white-bellied tanager (Tangara brasiliensis) It occurs in forest, woodland and cultivation. They are social birds usually found in groups. They eat a wide variety of fruit and also take insects, often gleaned from twigs.

Amazon Kingfisher photographed from a boat, Medio Queso, northern Costa Rica

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