This satellite picture shows just presents a sliver of what the 200 tributaries in the Amazon river looks like
The natives have been successfully able to built houses atop of the Amazon River. They rely on no modern means of transportation, instead they fish up there breakfast, lunch , and dinner from a canoe/kayak
It is here that Jeremy Wade, Expert fisherman from the highly known show River Monsters catches what the locals call "Arapaima" in the Amazon River . It was actually classified as a Living Fossil since no one ever knew it still existed.