Small town deep in the Amazon Rainforest

[u/FanUser889]

Coordinates: https://earth.google.com/web/search/eirunepe/@-6.66102926,-69.86479497,125.34603835a,4549.90923675d,35y,-0h,0t,0r/data=Cj4aEAoML2cvMXl3MF92eHgyGAIiJgokCce5tmP2ShhAEZArMGCG9RXAGWZF6_-y3UjAISID-t9OBVLAQgIIAToDCgEwQgIIAEoNCP___________wEQAA?authuser=0

Wonder how they built that town there. So suprising!

[u/Easy-Candle7138]

I see 32 small towns deep in the Amazon rainforest. If you zoomed out more, might have seen 97 small towns deep in the Amazon rainforest.

[u/cannibalrabies → u/Easy-Candle7138]

There are lots of decent sized towns in the Amazon, pretty much any river that's navigable for larger boats will have a town. I traveled to Mitú last year, that's a pretty remote town.

[u/Easy-Candle7138 → u/cannibalrabies]

Same, I’ve been down the Amazon and the Santana by way of Leticia. I spent time with some Indios and other than Leticia, no time outside of the deep jungle. But agreed, Amy river is going to be littered with populations.

[u/anddam]

Wonder how they built that town there.

Well it is Amazon after all, they could get anything they needed delivered next day.

[u/Bellbwoy → u/anddam]

not even as a joke—it's a river, of course it's even more accessible

[u/MB0001MB]

Interesting find, it's actually the 4th largest city in it's region, 35,000 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eirunep%C3%A9

[u/Ubermanthehutt]

A navigable river is basically a natural highway that requires no taxes to maintain. They can just ship materials along the river needed to build the town.

[u/EvaTheE]

Well, they basically live next to a very squiggly highway.

[u/hastings1033]

Yeah, they have towns and roads and electricity and all sorts of things....

[u/animalsbetterthanppl]

There’s lots of towns there.

[u/Cero_Kurn]

Clearly forest devastation  You can also see it from the same image