Brazil

Manaus and the Amazon Manaus lies deep within the Amazon Basin near the confluence of the Rio Negro and the Solimões River, where their combined waters form the main course of the Amazon River. The surrounding rainforest represents one of the most extensive and biologically diverse ecosystems on Earth, shaped by equatorial climate patterns and […]

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro occupies a dramatic coastal setting along Guanabara Bay, where granite peaks rise abruptly from the Atlantic shoreline and remnants of the Atlantic Forest meet dense urban development. Founded by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century as a strategic port, the city later became the capital of colonial and imperial […]