Amazon
— — the river that drinks the rain.
Not only on a wall.
“The Amazon Basin covers nearly seven million square kilometres across northern Brazil, with the main river running roughly 6,400 kilometres from the Peruvian Andes to the Atlantic. The forest holds about ten percent of the planet's known species. At Manaus, the dark Rio Negro meets the pale Solimões and runs unmixed for several kilometres, the Meeting of the Waters.
Amazon, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
The Amazon River drains the largest watershed on Earth, about 7 million square kilometres across nine South American countries, more than half of it inside Brazil. The main channel runs roughly 6,400 kilometres from the Mantaro headwaters in Peru to the Atlantic delta near Belém. At Manaus, the Rio Negro meets the Solimões; their different temperatures, densities, and sediments keep them flowing side by side, unmixed, for about six kilometres before they become the Amazon proper.
The Amazon carries about a fifth of all river water flowing into the world's oceans, a daily volume larger than the next seven rivers combined. Annual discharge averages around 209,000 cubic metres per second at the mouth. The river rises and falls roughly ten metres between wet and dry seasons, flooding the várzea forests along the Solimões for half the calendar. The Meeting of the Waters at Manaus stays visible because the Rio Negro runs about six degrees Celsius cooler than the Solimões.
Outside the river towns, the rainforest holds a sound floor that is not quiet but layered: howler monkeys at dawn, cicadas through the heat of the day, frogs that begin at dusk and last most of the night. The Anavilhanas Archipelago, 100 kilometres upstream of Manaus, scatters more than 400 islands through black-water channels where motorised traffic falls away. Indigenous territories cover roughly 28 percent of the Brazilian Amazon and shelter many of the basin's uncontacted peoples.