River in the Lower Amazon River

Brazilian scientists discovered the existence of an underground river that flows along the 6,000 kilometers. Uniquely, this river flows beneath the Amazon River.

The rivers were discovered thanks to a research project carried out in 241 wells owned oil company, Petrobras, which explore the Amazon region in the 1970s to the 1980s, to look for potential crude oil content.

Underground river that flows at a depth of 4,000 meters with a flow similar to Amazon. If calculated, the underground rivers that flow 3000 cubic meters of water per second.

Or in other words, the flow of the river is only 3 percent of the flow of the Amazon jungle in Peru that disgorge and empties into the Atlantic in northern Brazil. With a length of 6800 kilometers, the Amazon crowned the world's longest river.

The scientists named the river, Hamza, as a form of respect for the scientists of Indian origin, Valiya Mannathal Hamza, who dedicated his life studying the Amazon region for more than four decades, and chairman of the research team.

Indications of the existence of the river presented itself by Valiya Hamza of the National Observatory, Brazil. According to him, "thermal information" owned Petrobras enable research teams to identify the movement of underground streams.

The findings were presented last week in Rio de Janeiro in a meeting held by the Brazilian Geophysical Society.

Hamza added that the underground river flowing from west to east means, he has the Amazon rain forest drainage system, the Amazon River and the River Hamza.

Hamza stressed that the results of this study of new initial conclusions. His team hopes to confirm the underground stream in late 2014. However, he declined to comment on the economic and environmental impact of underground rivers in the Amazon rainforest.

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