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page 1Explorers of Amazonia

Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt was vice president for six months under William McKinley and became president after McKinley's assassination in 1901. He was 42 years old upon his first inauguration, making him the youngest person to hold the office.
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823–1913)

Francisco de Orellana
Spanish explorer and conquistador
Henry Walter Bates
English naturalist and explorer (1825–1892)
Percy Fawcett
British explorer, anthropologist and archaeologist (1867–1925)

Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
German botanist (1794-1868)

Johann Baptist von Spix
German naturalist (1781-1826)

Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
founder of Bogotá
Lope de Aguirre
Basque Spanish conquistador
Cândido Rondon
Brazilian explorer and officer (1865–1958)
Ed Stafford
English explorer (born 1975)
François-Louis Laporte, comte de Castelnau
French explorer and entomologist (1802–1880)
Richard Spruce
British botanist and explorer (1817–1893)
Pedro Teixeira
Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator (1585–1641)
Grigory Langsdorff
Russian-German naturalist and explorer (1774-1852)
Pedro de Ursúa
Spanish conquistador
Gaspar de Carvajal
Spanish Dominican missionary
Karl von den Steinen
German physician, ethnologist, explorer, ancient Americanist and writer (1855-1929)
Yossi Ghinsberg
adventurer, author and speaker
Antônio Raposo Tavares
Portuguese explorer to Brazil (1598–1658)
Henri Coudreau
French geographer and explorer (1859-1899)
Richard Schomburgk
German-Australian botanist (1811-1891)
Carlos Fitzcarrald
Peruvian businessman (1862-1897)
William Lewis Herndon
American explorer (1813–1857)
John Augustine Zahm
Holy Cross priest, author, scientist, and South American explorer (1851–1921)
Octavie Coudreau
French geographer and explorer
Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira
naturalist and explorer in Brazil (1756-1815)
William Chandless
Amazonian explorer, linguist (1829–1896)
Austrian Brazil Expedition
political and scientific mission to Brazil from Austria (1817–1835)
Ignác Szentmártonyi
Hungarian-Croatian Jesuit priest, scientist and explorer (1718-1793)

Villas-Bôas brothers
Brazilian activists
Jean Baptiste Douville
French explorer
Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition
expedition down the River of Doubt
Hernán Pérez de Quesada
Spanish conquistador in Colombia
Orlando Villas Bôas
Brazilian anthropologist (1914–2002)

Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel
German geographer and film producer (1910-1989)