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The Amazing Race en Discovery Channel
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Season Run	20 September – 13 December 2009
Filming dates	27 May 2009 – 18 June 2009
No. of Episodes	13
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Winning team	Matias Franchini & Tamara Reichelt
Season Stats
Continents visited	2
Countries visited	9
Cities visited	20
No. of legs	12
Distance traveled	14,600 km (9,100 mi)
Season chronology
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The Amazing Race en Discovery Channel (English: The Amazing Race on Discovery Channel; Portuguese: The Amazing Race no Discovery Channel) is a Latin American reality television game show based on the American series, The Amazing Race. The first season of the show featured eleven teams of two with a pre-existing relationship, in a race across Latin America to win US$250,000. The race was produced by RGB Entertainment. The host of the show is Harris Whitbeck.

The Amazing Race en Discovery Channel premiered on Sunday 20 September 2009 at 10:00 p.m.(UTC-5). The season finale was aired on 13 December 2009 at 10:00 p.m. (UTC-5).

Argentine married couple Matías Franchini & Tamara Reichelt were the winners of the race.

Discovery Channel greenlit the first installment on November 2008.

Filming lasted for 23 days and covered nearly 14,600 km (9,100 mi). The first season spanned nine countries in two continents. This season marked a first time visit by any race franchise outside of the American edition to visit North America. Among them, 7 have been visited by the original American version, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama and Peru. Colombia and the Dominican Republic have never been visited in the American version. Colombia was later visited in the twenty-eighth season of the original franchise, in 2016.