Survivor: The Amazon

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Survivor: The Amazon
Filming location	Rio Negro, Amazonas, Brazil
Winner	Jenna Morasca (6-1)
Original run	February 13, 2003 – May 11, 2003
Filming dates	November 7, 2002 – December 15, 2002
No. of episodes	14
No. of days	39
No. of survivors	16
Tribes	Jaburu      Tambaqui      Jacaré
All-Stars	Jenna Morasca, Rob Cesternino
Season chronology
Previous	Survivor: Thailand
Next	Survivor: Pearl Islands

Survivor: The Amazon was the sixth season of the United States reality show Survivor. It was filmed in 2002 and 13 episodes aired weekly in the United States on CBS from February 13 - May 11, 2003.

Sixteen people were sent to the Amazon to compete to win one million dollars. For the first time ever, the initial tribes were divided by sex. The two initial tribes were the all-female Jaburu (named for a native stork) and the all-male Tambaqui (a native fish). They were eventually merged into the Jacaré (Portuguese for "alligator") tribe. It started and ended as a battle of the sexes. The winner of Survivor: The Amazon was Jenna Morasca, a 21-year-old swimsuit model from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who defeated Matthew Von Ertfelda by a vote of 6-1. The season finale including the announcement of the winner and a live reunion of all the season's contestants at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City, on David Letterman's Late Show stage which was decorated to look like the set in the Amazon.

The season is noted for having the first reality show contestant with a disability, the hearing impaired Christy Smith.

Another notable moment in this season was a challenge that tested players' endurance against temptation. While all the players were standing on a pillar, in a typical endurance Immunity challenge, the players were told that they'd be tempted with various rewards for hopping off voluntarily. Almost immediately, Jenna Morasca and Heidi Strobel offered to take off all of their clothes if they were provided with chocolate and peanut butter. Probst complied with their request, and a very naked Jenna and Heidi exited the challenge and ate a plate of Oreo cookies and peanut butter. Their escapades earned them a cover shot and a nude pictorial in a Playboy spread.^[1]

Jenna Morasca and Rob Cesternino later competed in Survivor: All-Stars, where they placed 16th and 15th respectively.

Contestants

The Total Votes is the number of votes a castaway has received during Tribal Councils where the castaway is eligible to be voted out of the game. It does not include the votes received during the final Tribal Council.

The game

In the case of multiple tribes or castaways who win reward or immunity, they are listed in order of finish, or alphabetically where it was a team effort; where one castaway won and invited others, the invitees are in brackets.

Voting history

References

External links

• Official CBS Survivor The Amazon Website