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Hardly any river-system on planet Earth hosts such a variety of natural (aquatic) habitats, so many different species of waterplants and such a variety of freshwater fishes as the Rio Guaporé, a river that borders Brazil with Boliva (were the same is called Río Iténez) for more than 1,300 kilometers. The Portuguese Alexandre R. Ferreira (1756-1815) was the first naturalist to explore this unique river, followed by the Austrian Johann B. Natterer (1787-1843) and others, but it was the adventures German woman Amanda F. H. Bleher (1910-1991), my mother, who really opened this area up for the aquarium hobby worldwide. She discovered more than 60 new plant species here, and almost countless fishes, of which many of those grace today aquariums around the globe…

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