English translation: Shanai Timpishka is the only boiling river in the world. Located in the heart o...

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English translation:
Shanai Timpishka is the only boiling river in the world. Located in the heart of the Amazonian jungle in Peru. The length of the river is 6.4 km. The water temperature reaches 98 ° C. Cause this temperature is not fully understood. The river is cold at the source but as it flows, it mixes with hot water. One of versions, water descends from the glaciers of the Andes and goes deep under the ground. Then, in an unknown way, it heats up to high temperature and comes out to the surface in the form of hot springs through faults and cracks in the ground, replenishing the river with water.

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