Starting with its famous 19th-century opera house—in the Brazilian rain forest—Manaus is a study in contrasts, an electronics mecca on the Amazon. Few bazaars compare with the fish market in the frenetic river port of Manaus, smack in the middle of the Brazilian Amazon: the biggest city in the world's biggest forest. The Amazon and its many tributaries contain at least 3,000 species of fish, most of which are found nowhere else in the world.
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Themes: Adventure · Arts + Culture · Hotels + Resorts
Inspired by: Manaus Moment — by Mark Jacobson, Published Mar. 2006
