Andes to Amazon
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Andes to Amazon is a nature documentary TV series co-produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, England and Animal Planet, first transmitted in the UK on BBC2 in November 2000. In other territories it was broadcast under the title Wild South America
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Also known as | Wild South America |
Genre | Nature documentary |
Narrated by | Fergal Keane |
Composer | Nicholas Hooper |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 6 |
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Executive producer | Karen Bass |
Running time | 50 minutes |
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Network | BBC Two |
Release | 6 November (2000-11-06) ā 18 December 2000 (2000-12-18) |
Each of the six 50-minute episodes portrays a different aspect of the South American continent. The series features extensive aerial photography of major landforms shot by Bob Fulton, and footage of rarely glimpsed animals in the wild. Andes to Amazon was narrated by Fergal Keane and produced by Karen Bass.
The series forms part of the Natural History Unit's Continents strand, and was preceded by Land of the Tiger in 1997 and followed one year later by Congo.