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Manaus, the capital city of the Amazonas State located on the banks of the Negro River is today an important center for ecological tourism in Brazil. Manaus� past, in the early years of the twenty century was a wealthy city from where rubber and other natural resources were exported creating fortunes. Manaus quickly became the most important cultural center in the Northern Region of Brazil which the rubber barons dreamed of transforming it into a European style city and called it the Paris of the Tropics.
It�s architecture reflected on the Opera House and the Municipal Market it is an exmple of the luxury and ostentation in wich some of its inhabitants lived during that period. Today Manaus is the gateway for tourists from all over the world that come to have a first hand look at the greatest rain forest in the world.

Opera House, Manas

While in Manaus do not miss the oportunity to see the Enconter of the Waters of the two main rivers, The Negro and the Solimoes at which the dark waters of Negro and the greenish muddy waters of the Solimoes meet, forming the Amazon River. For three miles beyond their confluence the Negro and Solimoes flow side by side without merging.This tour is always accompanied by " pink dolphins" jumping from one river to the other one and I guarantee that you will never see anything like it again unless you come back to Manaus.