Anything that falls into a four-kilometre stretch of a river in the central Peruvian Amazon dies within seconds, because the water reaches temperatures of up to 100 degrees Celsius, despite the river sitting more than 700 kilometres from the nearest active volcano and in a region of the planet with no known magmatic activity

Shanay-Timpishka, a boiling hot river 700km from the nearest active volcano

The Asháninka and Shipibo people, who have lived in the central Peruvian Amazon for many centuries, have a name for it: Shanay-Timpishka. In Quechua, it

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