The Amazon, 4,000 miles long, its basin holding two-thirds of all the fresh water on Earth. Even the superlatives are superlative. This program looks at the river basin, the jungle, and the life within this ecosystem so vital to the survival of life as we know it on our planet: the effects of rainfall and humidity, the balance between predator and prey, the pressure to reproduce, and the struggles, not only between species but between such opposing worlds as those of reptiles and mammals. An RTVE production. (28 minutes)

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