r/BeAmazed • u/Vegetable-Mousse4405 • 7d ago
Nature The clear and pristine waters of the Rio Sucuri River in Brazil.
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u/NDG_use 7d ago
Most of us have never seen a river this clean, it's very disappointing.
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u/mindcontrol93 7d ago
Southern Missouri/Northern Arkansas has some spring fed rivers that are this clean. Great for trout fishing.
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u/Substantial-Welder51 6d ago
Shhhh!!! You know nothing!!
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u/mindcontrol93 6d ago
Like how I won't tell the fantastic city I live in. Very violent and terrible stay way.
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u/Smart_Turnover_8798 6d ago
Incredibly beautiful too. One of the spring fed rivers has beautiful cypress trees growing along the edge.
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u/MyNameIsNemo_ 7d ago
That also means that it is completely devoid of life if it that clear. It is probably completely natural, but naturally lifeless.
This is beautiful, but I still prefer my messy bug, turtle, and fish poop filled waterways. Not trying to cause offense - just that life is messy too. And pollution still sucks.
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u/BookishHobbit 7d ago
Not true! Chalk streams are like this, there’s one near me and it’s crystal clear but there are fish and all sorts of wildlife in it.
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u/MoistStub 7d ago
Also many of the highly oxygenated bodies of water in Alaska are super clear and a deeper blue color due to the oxygen
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u/doogidie 7d ago
Every spring ever is like this though, I go to blue springs all the time and it has plenty of algae on the submerged logs, but you can see right through it. Beautiful but chilly
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u/dubble_210 6d ago
What a load of bullshit...ask any fly fisherman, they fish in crystal clear streams all the time catching trout and salmon in good numbers, the fish wouldn't be there without a food source (other forms of life).
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u/mindcontrol93 7d ago
There are spring fed rivers in Missouri this clear. They are full of trout.
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u/bigswifty86 6d ago
Paisu Pok Lake in Indonesia is similarly clear. It has lots of small fishes which feed off mosquitoes and algae. It is cut off from other water sources so it doesn’t have larger animals but it can still easily sustain life.
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u/Boldyeah 6d ago
Hahaha there are like hundreds of fish there, went there myself, most amazing experience of my life. So many fish, otters, it's amazing.
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u/SalmonHustlerTerry 6d ago
Oh look at this super clear clean river at this location!!! Would be a shame if half the internet went to see it and polluted the fuck out of it
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u/EndOfSouls 6d ago
'Tis the fate of all mother Earth. Pitiful humans will not rest until it is all muck.
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u/Hopeful_Ad5529 7d ago
FYI, Rio means river in Portuguese, so it's just Sucuri River.
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u/HebridesNutsLmao 7d ago
On a related note, imagine my disappointment when I leaned that Rio de Janeiro just means "January River" 😑
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u/MagestadeGamer 7d ago
And you know why is January? because when the Portuguese first arrived there it was January, and also not a river it’s a bay.
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u/HebridesNutsLmao 7d ago
That's even worse 😭
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u/Rozdriguez 7d ago
It's interesting to notice, however, that "Rio" is an old way of naming things that nowadays we call "Baía" (Bay). The reason for it is because there weren't any terms distinguishing river, bay and little coves(what we call saco nowadays)
So it was not wrong, just outdated. It is a common misleading information in Brazil today, a lot of folks that live there believe in such mistake, but there was no mistake from the navigators, just anachronism for todays standards of nomenclature.
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u/that_bored_one 6d ago
Half the places in Brasil are named after water bodies. There's a state called "Bay" (Bahia) because it's a big Bay
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u/JoePessanha 7d ago
But, what did you think it meant before learning this?
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u/HebridesNutsLmao 7d ago
Cool Brazilian Samba And Caipirinha And Off-Duty Cops Wearing Havaianas City 🥺
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u/podlaski-dzikus 7d ago
Love it! How many animals can eat me or harm me while having this trip?
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u/Worldly_Horse7024 7d ago
im 99.99% sure there'll be a big massive Phyton just slither around there waiting for you to swim across or a crocs, or a really large catfish swallow your legs😨
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u/OneSensiblePerson 6d ago
I was deliberately avoiding this thought so I could enjoy a care-free fantasy of floating down this incredibly beautiful river.
But lurking behind the fantasy was fear of something bitey.
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u/luiz_marques 7d ago
You know what Sucuri means in portuguese? ANACONDA
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u/Iamnotabothonestly 7d ago
So it's called Anaconda river? Yeah, it may be beautiful and all, but I think I'm going to pass on this for now.
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u/Boogie2233 7d ago
There are many natural spring rivers just like this on the gulf coast of Florida.
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u/michalrr 7d ago
In Croatia you also find such a river by Plitvice Lake and it is probably safer than that one in Brazil
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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 7d ago
Lake Michigan looks like that. It's deceptive because you'll be half asleep in the sun on a boat or raft and look into the water, it looks like it's about 4 feet deep and you get out and it's 50 feet deep and COLD
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u/ThinNeighborhood2276 7d ago
Absolutely stunning! The visibility must be incredible for snorkeling or diving.
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u/sanidhya99 7d ago
That’s so damn clean never seen the water so clean ever looks so satisfying to watch it hats off!
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u/FANTASMA-W 7d ago
Só será assim até os japoneses começarem a sujar tudo, o lularápio já está quase vendendo os brasileiros como cobaias para teste ou mão de obra escrava.
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u/RoyaltiJones 6d ago
How beautiful! Love that you'd be able to see the anaconda before it swallows you whole.
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u/Several-Scallion-411 6d ago
It would be terrible to pay a lot of money only to find out that it doesn’t look like this after I get there. I always get worried that I’m being duped. 😂
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u/the_annan 6d ago
One corporate is all it takes to destroy this. It all starts with tourism. Then more facilities for tourists. This never ends
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u/Photoshopdoge 6d ago
Does anyone know the reason to why this river is so clear and pristine like that?
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u/OneSensiblePerson 6d ago
Wow, that is breathtakingly beautiful. It's not just that it's so clear - there are streams this clear where I live - but the colours! The turquoise, teals, greens, blues, I really am amazed with this one!
Would love to drift lazily downstream on this one. Dream come true.
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u/Conscious-Rise-6852 6d ago
Just watch out for giant sized anacondas, I'm pretty sure I saw a documentary about it. I think Ice Cube was in it.
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u/BoysenberryWarm7429 6d ago
I’m gonna be that guy and say Rio Sucuri River is redundant. Rio means river.
I remember something like this happening with a Native American name of a place that already included it that which it is.
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