IN CASE YOU MISSED IT


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c. 13,000 BCE

Ancient Amazonians create villages in the Amazon

c. 8850 BCE

The people of Llanos de Moxos build earthworks in the Amazon

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c. 1400–1533 CE

The Inca Empire flourishes in Peru

1541–2

Spaniard Francisco de Orellana sails the length of the Amazon

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1690s

The Portuguese begin mining for gold in the Amazon

1872

Yellowstone becomes the first national park in the U.S.

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1874

Francisco Moreno goes on his first expedition to Patagonia

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1879

The Amazon rubber boom begins

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1922

Nahuel Huapi becomes a national park in Argentina

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1929

Kaieteur becomes the first national park in the Amazon region

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1931

Ynés Mexía canoes down the Amazon River

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1944

The photographer Sebastião Salgado is born

1965

Brazil passes its first Forest Code to protect the rainforest

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2018

Chiribiquete National Natural Park is declared a World Heritage Site

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2019

The Amazon has a record number of fires

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2024

27 new species of animals, fish, and insects are uncovered in Peru’s Amazon Rainforest