🏞 Landscapes & nature
Amazon
river in South America
🇵🇪 Peru · -4.4484, -73.4559
Amazon is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia articles of 3 productions — in the section each entry below links back to. No Wikidata filming statement points here yet, so this page says plainly which kind of evidence it rests on.
“The Iguaçu Falls, in the south of Brazil, was used in the film, although as Q notes, the falls were supposedly somewhere in the upper basin of the River Amazon.”
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Amazon as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, and labelled as what it is — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.
- Moonraker 1979
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God 1972
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The Motorcycle Diaries
2004
“The scene which features Guevara's character swimming across to the other side of the river was filmed during three nights in which Bernal swam across the actual Amazon River.” Wikipedia
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Frequently asked questions
What was filmed at Amazon?
3 productions are recorded as filmed at Amazon, including Moonraker (1979), Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) and The Motorcycle Diaries (2004). 3 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed at Amazon?
Moonraker (1979), covered by 55 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Amazon?
Amazon is in Peru, at -4.4484, -73.4559.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Neil Palmer/CIAT, CC BY-SA 2.0.