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2. Amazon Theatre - Wikipedia

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   The Amazon Theatre (Portuguese: Teatro Amazonas) is an opera house located in Manaus, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. It is the location of the annual Festival Amazonas de Ópera (Amazonas Opera Festival) and the home of the Amazonas Philharmonic Orchestra which regularly rehearses and performs at the Amazon Theatre along with choirs, musical concerts and other performances.

3. Amazonas (Brazilian state) - Wikipedia

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   Amazon Jungle Hikes & Canopy Tours; Adolfo Ducke Forest Reserve; The Meeting of Waters is the confluence between the dark (blackwater) Rio Negro and the pale sandy-colored (whitewater) Amazon River or Rio Solimões, as the upper section of the Amazon is known in Brazil upriver of this confluence. Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve; Jaú ...

4. Meeting of Waters - Wikipedia

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   Aerial view of the Meeting of Waters. The Meeting of Waters (Portuguese: Encontro das Águas) is the confluence between the dark (blackwater) Rio Negro and the pale sandy-colored (whitewater) Amazon River, referred to as the Solimões River in Brazil upriver of this confluence. For 6 km (3.7 mi) the waters of the two rivers run side by side ...

5. Trans-Amazonian Highway - Wikipedia

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   Highways in Brazil. Federal. The Trans-Amazonian Highway (official designation BR-230, official name Rodovia Transamazônica Portuguese pronunciation: [ho.doˈvi.ɐ tɾɐ̃.za.maˈzõ.ni.kɐ]) was introduced on September 27, 1972. It is 4,000 km long, making it the third longest highway in Brazil. It runs through the Amazon forest and the ...

6. Tourism in Brazil - Wikipedia

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   Tourism is a growing sector and key to the economy of several regions of Brazil. The country had 6.589 million visitors in 2018, ranking in terms of the international tourist arrivals as the second main destination in South America after Argentina and third in Latin America after Mexico and Argentina. [2] Revenues from international tourists ...

7. Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia

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   3°S 60°W  /  3°S 60°W  / -3; -60. Area. 5,500,000 km 2 (2,100,000 sq mi) The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [2] of which ...

8. Jaú National Park - Wikipedia

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   The name "Jaú" comes from that of one of the largest fish in Brazil, the gilded catfish or jau (Zungaro zungaro), after which the main river of the park is named. [1] The park is in the Amazon biome in the Japurá-Solimões-Negro moist forests ecoregion. [2] It covers an area of 2,367,333 hectares (5,849,810 acres).

9. Caverna da Pedra Pintada - Wikipedia

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   Caverna da Pedra Pintada (Painted Rock Cave (in Portuguese)), is an archaeological site in northern Brazil, with evidence of human presence dating ca. 11,200 years ago. [1][2] This find has challenged previous thinking about patterns of human settlement in South America. Anna C. Roosevelt, an American archaeologist and primary researcher here ...