Buscando el Río Hirviente (In Search of the Boiling River)

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4.5 • 14.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Andrés Ruzo grew up listening to his grandfather tell a story about a river with boiling waters in the Amazon. When he later became a scientist specializing in geothermal energy, he set a goal for himself: to go deep into the jungle and find that river.

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0:00.0	When Andrés Russo was 13 years old, he heard a legend from the time when Spanish conquerors came to his country.
0:07.5	Peru.
0:08.5	My abuelo, Daniel, me habló de esta leyenda.
0:14.7	Él era un hombre alto, atractivo y muy elegante.
0:21.2	Él estaba tomando pisco, un licor de uvas preparado en Peru.
0:28.8	Y empezó a narrar una historia sobre los incas.
0:34.3	El imperio más fuerte de su América.
0:39.0	That story talked about a river with boiling temperatures
0:42.5	on the Peruvian side of the Amazonian jungle.
0:45.6	The weird thing is, there's no active volcano there that could make a river boil.
0:51.1	A year later, he began to study science and geothermal energy.
0:59.4	He was sure of something.
1:02.5	The river in the history of my abuelo was just a legend.
1:09.9	Until the day he was guided deep into the Amazon rainforest
1:13.9	to find this river that boiled.
1:22.1	Bienvenidos, and welcome to the Duolingo Spanish podcast.
1:26.0	I'm Martina Castro.
1:27.7	Every episode we bring you fascinating, true stories
1:31.2	to help you improve your Spanish listening
1:33.4	and gain new perspectives on the world.
1:35.7	The storyteller will be using intermediate Spanish
1:38.8	and I'll be chiming in for context in English.
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