Os 9 rios mais perigosos do mundo

Rivers provide water, food and transportation to communities around the world. They are often beautiful, refreshing, and even fun. But as incredible as rivers are, they can also turn deadly.

Whether because of human recklessness or nature's ferocious traps, there are some bodies of water you'd better never set foot in. I'm Donato de Paula, narrator of Mistérios do Mundo, and here are the 9 most dangerous rivers in the world. Wharfe River It looks like a simple stream in the north of England, but there are those who say that it is one of the most dangerous in the world, and anyone who falls there has no chance of surviving.

The River Wharfe stretches for 100 kilometers, is shallow and wide for the most part. But, when arriving at a specific point called Bolton Strid, this distance between banks drops to just one meter, and it becomes very deep. This narrowing of the banks creates a kind of bottleneck that increases the pressure of the current, causing the water to corrode the lower part of the rocks, creating an abyss whose extent is unknown.

Local residents claim that no person who ended up falling into the river survived, which is why signs like this are common there. Nile River The Nile River is the longest in the world. It flows through eleven countries and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.

Throughout history, it has made great civilizations flourish across Africa, but it has also always posed numerous threats. This includes crocodiles that can move at 35 kilometers per hour and kill more than 200 people a year, hippos that often attack boats, poisonous snakes such as the black mamba and mosquitoes that transmit various diseases, such as malaria and Nile fever, responsible for for making millions of people sick each year. Rio Tinto This river can enchant anyone with its deep reddish waters.

But although it looks beautiful, it is certainly not a place you would want to dive. The color of the water comes from high levels of acidity and unusual concentrations of heavy metals such as copper, silver and gold. Of course, these materials have attracted the greed of humans for centuries.

The river has seen years and years of mining along its banks. The practice of burning sulfur killed vegetation and affected the health of animals and humans living in the area. The place is considered one of the worst environmental catastrophes in Spain, and a dip in this river can bring a series of health complications as a bonus.

Citarum River This, like so many others, should only be a source of life for humans and animals. But instead, it is the most polluted river in the world, in Indonesia, and represents an extreme danger to neighboring communities, threatening the lives of fauna and flora that once depended on it. The problem started with hundreds of textile factories dumping their industrial and chemical runoff into the river.

This includes dyes and toxic chemicals such as mercury and arsenic. Afterwards, the river also became a grotesque landfill for millions of people who live on its banks, bearing the brunt of their seemingly never-ending waste. During the rainy season, garbage clogs drainage systems and causes cities to flood.

Boiling River Until recently, this was a mere myth for Westerners. Hidden in the Peruvian Amazon jungle, the river was a secret that indigenous communities kept due to its sanctity. Also known as "La Bomba", its waters reach temperatures of up to 90 degrees - high enough to cook small animals alive and cause serious burns in humans.

The heat is geothermal, but, interestingly, it does not come from volcanoes, but from the depths of the planet. Shamans use this tributary of the Amazon River for sacred rituals. Eastern Crocodile River When a river has this name, there is no need to explain much why it is dangerous.

one of the three Crocodile rivers , the West and South being the other two, but this one is most famous because there is a passage. Partially submerged, the path is shallow enough for people to cross by car or on foot, at times. sometimes out of necessity, sometimes just for the thrill of an experience of near death.

Those who make it across have bragging rights, but often cars and individuals are swept by unexpected currents into the water, where deadly crocodiles gather and are not afraid to attack. Congo River This is the deepest river in the world with some parts reaching 220 meters deep. Its dangers come in the form of many rapids, gorges and waterfalls that pose a threat to the numerous vessels that cross it, most of them transporting goods.

One of the most treacherous parts is a wide gorge known as the "Gates of Hell" because it is virtually impossible to navigate the narrow formation. Techa River The Soviet government kept the Mayak nuclear facility secret until 1990, and spent a period of invisibility making nuclear fusions and dumping radioactive waste into the Techa River. The result?

A nuclear nightmare, which ended up contaminating more than half of the residents of 40 villages that depended on its water. After years of contaminating the river, the Soviet Union sent researchers to make sure the situation was under control. Scientists discovered that, in just one hour, the river emitted 25% of the radioactivity released in the region during an entire year.

It was only after 3 years that thousands of families were relocated. The facility closed long ago, but its waste still remains. Today, Techa still exhibits significant amounts of cesium, but part of its bed has been covered with concrete.

Amazon River And the largest river in terms of water volume is not far behind when it comes to threats. Alligators that look like they've taken steroids, anacondas, which are even the largest snakes in the world and even bull sharks, which occasionally make a visit to the river. Other threats include fish that crawl into human orifices and piranhas with razor-sharp teeth.

But that's not all, if you run away from these threats, you may come across electric eels that emit 600 volts of electricity, and when leaving the river, be careful with armored spiders, some of the most poisonous in the world. We have a video just about the scariest animals in the Amazon River. Which of these rivers did you find scariest?

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