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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Samuel Fritz, 1700
Ignacy Domeyko, 1882
Edmund Bielawski, 1961
Jacek Palkiewicz, 1996
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