Tag: Brazil
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Manaus: Meeting of the Waters
I’m in Manaus, Brazil, on the Rio Negro. The Rio Negro is “only” 3km wide at Manaus. But that’s before it meets its big brother, the main Amazon. I took a river trip today to see the Meeting of Waters, where the dark black water of the Rio Negro meets the clay-brown water of the…
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Manaus: Teatro Amazonas
I’m in Manaus, Brazil. Today I visited the Teatro Amazonas, the very grand, very over-the-top “Opera House in the Jungle”. It was built in the 1890s, at the height of the Brazilian rubber boom. The wealthy Rubber Barons wanted an Opera House to impress the world. And they got it! I took a tour in…
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The Itaipu Dam
I caught a local bus out to the visitor center at the giant Itaipu (“it-eye-poo“) dam on the Brazil-Paraguay border. Depending how you measure it, this is either the #1 or #2 hydroelectric plant in the world, with a peak generating capacity of 14 Gigawatts. Yowza! I signed up for the “Special Circuit” tour, which…