The beast that river-dwellers have long feared is coming later this week.
It’s a wave called Pororoca, the great roar, and its low bellow can be heard up to an hour before it arrives. It tumbles in from the ocean and travels up the Amazon on a path of destruction. While the region’s residents accept the river’s wrath and start moving their boats and animals, daredevils called bore riders grab their surfboards.
This beast that they will ride is called a tidal bore, a wave that flows in from the ocean and propagates to dozens of rivers around the world. Along the Amazon … More
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