AMAZON, WORLD’S GREATEST RIVER
In 2007, the journalist Paula Saldanha organized and financed the Brazilian and Peruvian Scientific Expedition to the placement of geodetic marks and consequent formalization of the location of the true origin of the Amazon River. She contacted the Peruvian Government and the National Geographic Institute – IGN (Peru), to develop the join work with Brazilian institutions IBGE, ANA and INPE. The binational expedition was supported by Petrobras and IGN. The team of researchers and documentary filmmakers RW Cine, led by the journalist analyzed and registered the Quebrada Carhuasanta and Laguna McIntyre, considered the most remote point of feeding of the Amazon river on the slopes of Nevado Mismi, 5.597 meters above sea level in Arequipa south of Peru. With the establishment of geodesic marks in the nascent of the river, measure and disseminated of the results was possible by INPE scientists: the Amazon is the largest river in the world, surpassing the Nile in 140 km.
In 2009, Pedro Werneck, The coordinator and director of the Scientific Expedition documentation, registered nearly seven thousand kilometers of the Amazon course, from the top of Nevado Mismi, the source of Laguna McIntyre, in the south of the Peruvian Andes, to its mouth in the Atlantic ocean.
The registers will be on his feature-length documentary Amazon, the World`s greatest river – An Adventure from the source to the mouth, still in editing. The long, had the support of the Institute Paula Saldanha, which has provided for the press in Brazil and abroad information on the world’s largest river.
In November 1994, Paula Saldanha had done toogheter the biologist Roberto Werneck, the first documentation for the TV about the true source of the Amazon River in southern Peru, bringing the coordinates for the INPE and publishing on TV, videos, exhibitions and books, the Amazon is the largest river in the world. Paula and Roberto document Brazil since 1977 and throughout this vast work, research and record the geography, the culture and the diversity of the largest river on the planet.
(Fonte: https://www.ograndeamazonas.com.br/).
