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Subject: Rio Negro is the largest left tributary of the Amazon and the largest blackwater river in the world, has its sources along the watershed between the Orinoco and the Amazon basins, and also connects with the Orinoco by way of the Casiquiare canal. (Wikipedia)
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Amazonas06 - 041 * Chestnut Woodpecker.

Amazonas06 - 042 * Boarding the Tucano from the Tropical Manaus hotel.

Amazonas06 - 043 * Architectural plans for the Amazon river boat Tucano. (naturetravelspecialists.com)

Amazonas06 - 044 * Cabin 3's interior.

 
Amazonas06 - 046 * Rio Negro is navigable for 450 miles above its mouth for 4 feet of water in the dry season, but it has many sandbanks and minor difficulties. In the wet season, it overflows the country far and wide, sometimes to a breadth of 20 miles, for long distances, and for 400 miles up, as far as Santa Isabella, is a succession of lagoons, full of long islands and intricate channels, and the slope of the country is so gentle that the river has almost no current. (Wikipedia)

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Amazonas06 - 049 * Museum Seringal Vila Paraiao, Manaus

Amazonas06 - 050 * Museum of the Seringal Vila Paradise is a re-creation of a rubber boom plantation. This is the house of the colonel. He had absolute command over his rubber soldiers.

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