The Amazon
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We’ve compiled the best of the best in The Amazon - browse our top choices for the top things to see or do during your stay.
Used as a research station for the INPA (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa da Amazônia), the 13 hectares of tropical forest here are home to a...Read More
A 40-minute speedboat trip south of Alter do Chão is the community of Jamaraquá, which has developed a strong cultural identity. Here you can...Read More
The largest freshwater tropical reserve in the world, Mamirauá is about 1,050 km (650 miles) west of Manaus on the Rio Solimões. The reserve...Read More
City beautification efforts to increase tourism and encourage environmental conservation led to the creation of the Mangrove of the Egrets,...Read More
Outside Manaus, the slow-moving, muddy Amazon and the darker, quicker Rio Negro flow side by side for 6 km (4 miles) without mixing. If you...Read More
Thirteen km (8 miles) north of Soure, Praia do Pesqueiro is the island's most popular beach. When you stand on the white-sand expanse looking...Read More
Built during the rubber boom of the late 1800s, the grandiose Teatro Amazonas was financed by wealthy Brazilian rubber barons who wanted a cultural...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesIn 1883 this 40-acre plot of rain forest was designated an ecological reserve. Nowadays it has an aquarium and two amusement parks as well as...Read More
Founded January 12, 1616, this fort is considered Belém's birthplace. From here the Portuguese launched conquests of the Amazon and watched...Read More
Jutting out into the river across from the main square, this fat finger of golden sand is one of Alter's picture-perfect postcard shots and...Read More
Founded by a naturalist and a group of intellectuals in 1866, this complex contains one of the Amazon's most important research facilities....Read More
This lovely, clean beach on the Rio Negro is popular with locals and tends to fill up on Sunday and holidays. Calm waters make it a good choice...Read More
In an early-20th-century sewage-treatment plant that never functioned, this cultural center on the banks of the Rio Negro features interesting...Read More
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