Don't fall in! A legendary river that BOILS its victims alive is discovered deep in the heart of the Amazon
A mysterious, four-mile long river, deep in the heart of the Amazon, is so hot that it boils.
The river has long been a legend in Peru, but when geoscientist Andrés Ruzo's heard about it, he thought such a phenomenon was impossible.
He believed that it would require a huge amount of geothermal heat to boil even a small river, and the Amazon basin is far from any active volcanoes.
But then, in 2011, Ruzo saw the legendary boiling river with his own eyes.
Runzo discovered a four mile 'boiling river' in the sacred geothermal healing site of the Asháninka people in Mayantuyacu.
At its widest, it is 82ft (25 metres), and around 20ft (six metres) deep. The water is hot enough to brew tea, according to a report in Gizmodo, and in some parts, it boils over.
'Dipping my hand into the river would give me third-degree burns in less than half a second,' Ruzo told Ted.com 'Falling in could easily kill me.'
The river boils because of fault-fed hot springs.
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