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Who and when discovered the source of the Amazon River?

Samuel Fritz, 1700

Ignacy Domeyko, 1882

Edmund Bielawski, 1961

Jacek Palkiewicz, 1996

Jacek Pałkiewicz is a Polish journalist, traveler and explorer. He is best known for his 1996 expedition to the Andes, which indisputably established the source of the Amazon River to be the Kiwicha snowfield at the feet of Mismi in the Peruvian Andes.

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Dominican Republic