| Alt Name: | Wild South America |
| Genre: | Nature documentary |
| Narrated: | Fergal Keane |
| Composer: | Nicholas Hooper |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Num Episodes: | 6 |
| Executive Producer: | Karen Bass |
| Runtime: | 50 minutes |
| Channel: | BBC Two |
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
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.
The filmmakers journeyed the length and breath of South America in search of locations and unusual species. Memorable sequences include an aerial journey over a glacier in Argentine Patagonia, jungle animals visiting an Amazon waterhole at night and luminous termite mounds in the grasslands of central Brazil. Other locations featured are the Galápagos Islands and the Salar de Uyuni, the world's biggest salt lake in the Bolivian altiplano.
Filming and post-production took three years in all.[1]
Broadcast dates refer to the original UK transmission.
A book, soundtrack CD and DVD were all released to accompany the TV series: