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Boiling River’ of Peru is unique on Earth
Friday, February 19, 2016, 2:07 PM – A river flowing with water hot enough to burn sounds like something out of a nightmare, or a legend told to frighten. And, for most of his life, Peruvian geoscientist Andrés Ruzo thought it was just that.Tantalized by his grandparents with childhood stories of a mythical boiling river, heated by the serpent spirit Yacumama, it wasn’t until he was pursuing a PhD in geophysics that Ruzo began to wonder if there was some truth at the root of the legend. Unusually warm rivers aren’t unheard of, after all; but they go hand in hand with volcanic activity, and the site of the river his grandparents spoke of was more than 700 km from the nearest active volcano.Despite being discouraged by his academic peers, in 2011 Ruzo decided to take a chance on his grandmother’s insistence that she’d seen the steamy banks in person, and was rewarded with more than 6 kilometers of river hot enough to scald the skin and cook animals alive.
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Friday, February 19, 2016, 2:07 PM – A river flowing with water hot enough to burn sounds like something out of a nightmare, or a legend told to frighten. And, for most of his life, Peruvian geoscientist Andrés Ruzo thought it was just that.Tantalized by his grandparents with childhood stories of a mythical boiling river, heated by the serpent spirit Yacumama, it wasn’t until he was pursuing a PhD in geophysics that Ruzo began to wonder if there was some truth at the root of the legend. Unusually warm rivers aren’t unheard of, after all; but they go hand in hand with volcanic activity, and the site of the river his grandparents spoke of was more than 700 km from the nearest active volcano.Despite being discouraged by his academic peers, in 2011 Ruzo decided to take a chance on his grandmother’s insistence that she’d seen the steamy banks in person, and was rewarded with more than 6 kilometers of river hot enough to scald the skin and cook animals alive.
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