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Canoes & Voadeiras on the Alto Rio Negro

A photo essay from the Brazilian Amazon.

Nicholas Gill
Apr 05, 2024
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Aside of an often-impassable dirt road that runs north to tri-border area with Colombia and Venezuela, and a small grid of streets surrounding São Gabriel da Cachoeira, traveling by road is not the primary means of transportation in the Alto Rio Negro region in the far northwest of the Brazilian Amazon. This is a land of rivers that permeate across the …

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