Animal Planet · Ended

Wildest Latin America

Nature, Travel · 2012

Last aired: S1 E5, Patagonia · 2012-07-03

Through beautiful photography and the extraordinary stories of the animals and people that live there, this series celebrates Latin America's most iconic and dramatic locations. Trek across the mountainous peaks and volcanic slopes of the Andes; explore the windswept plains of the Patagonian wilderness; journey into the teeming forests of the Amazon, and wade through the giant swamps of Venezuela, as this beautiful five-part series celebrates the region's most iconic and dramatic locations.

Cast

Paul McGann Narrator

Season 1

E1 Venezuela 2012-05-24 · 45 min Venezuela is famous for its lost worlds, its forbidding mountains, huge swamps, and impenetrable jungles, all seemingly cut off in space and time. Yet each is linked, by the mighty river: the Orinoco, the rumored route to El Dorado, city of gold.

E2 Andes 2012-06-02 · 45 min The longest chain of mountains in the world, the Andes run the length of western South America and dictate the climate for the whole continent. They include some of the highest peaks outside the Himalayas.

E3 Amazon 2012-06-05 · 45 min The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world, and the richest ecosystem on earth. This film uncovers what makes the Amazon such a powerhouse of evolution; how it has come to home a third of all species on the planet.

E4 The Pantanal 2012-06-26 · 45 min Every year The Pantanal is drowned by immense floods, and then suffer severe drought. Yet, while people struggle, the Pantanal hosts some of the greatest gatherings of animals on the planet.

E5 Patagonia 2012-07-03 · 45 min Patagonia is a place of extremes - of vast ice fields and snow-capped mountains; of windswept deserts and violent oceans. Survival here means being tough enough to cope with brutal winters, and canny enough to exploit brief seasons of plenty.

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