There are countless poems, writings and stories about the Amazon River. It has always been the veins through which life flows in the jungle and the center of it. It is well used by those who have lived around it for centuries, well suffered by the Spaniards when they faced one of the greatest natural wonders of the world and, last but not least, well we go through it when we go to the Amazon.

The life of those who live in the jungle, therefore, is centered on the river. Near it live the indigenous communities of the Amazon; their crafts and products flow downstream through its innumerable branches; it connects people divided by the immense sea of green that are the great trees, and, finally, it is the door to the world through which we can know the jungle.