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Lost and found: Primative tribe is discovered in South America's Amazon valley
We don't have time machines that can turn back the clock, but earlier this month the organization Survival International made contact with an Amazon River tribe that appears to have had no contact with the modern world. Photos and a full report are available here, but the link may be slow to come up as the website is experiencing heavy traffic with this big announcement. Survival International officials actually flew over the tribe's village with a small aircraft and did not have face-to-face contact with the tribe. Here's another interesting photo of the find.
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Calm waters: This picture shows the Amazon River very calmly, but last week a 30-foot wave wiped out a village, carring alligators, fish and boats along with it.A wild wave rocked life along the Amazon River earlier this week.
Media reports are saying that a huge wave, maybe up to 30 feet high, crashed into a village and wiping out two houses. One man was reported missing following the wave.
The wave is officially under investigation, but is believe to have started by a mudslide. The wave carried alligators, boats and fish into the village of Costa da Aguia, which is 1,700 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro.
All 21 people who live in Costa da Aguia had to be relocated as all their homes were destroyed. The houses were built on wooden stilts along the river’s bank.
"It looked like a building, growing with an immense velocity,'' Marisson Garcia, who lives just across the river from the damaged village, told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper.
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