AmanaKa'a Amanaka'a worked directly with Amazon leaders in support of their projects for survival, human rights, the environment, health, sustainable development, education, and more. Amanaka'a history Amanaka'a came into being as a direct result of Amazon Week I in 1990, which culminated in the Chico Mendes Campaign. Today, Amazon Week is still a major part of our identity. Held every year in New York City, it has grown to become the world's largest regularly-held rainforest conference. Ama ...

Amazon Interactive Who lives in the Amazon? Mestizos? That's right! In the centuries since Columbus discovered the the New World, many Europeans have migrated to South America. Most of the people living in South America today have both European and indigenous ancestors. Until recently, however, few of them lived in the Amazon. They preferred to live in established cities along the coasts and in the Andes mountains. But in the past few decades, more and more mestizos have moved to the Amaz ...

Iquitos is probably the largest city in the world that is unreachable by road. The dense jungle and web of waterways make building a road to Iquitos impractical. Most people and products arrive and leave via the airport or the river, as we did. The Amazon river is deep and wide enough for ocean going vessels to make it all the way to Iquitos, which is remarkable considering that this city is nearly two thousand miles from the Atlantic Ocean! On our journey, we traveled down only a fraction of t ...