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Water Abrolhos Archipelago
"Humpback mothers teaching calves to breach at the largest coral reef in the South Atlantic."
Water Anavilhanas
"Hundreds of forested islands drifting in the tea-dark waters of the Rio Negro."
Mountain Aparados da Serra
"Canyon walls dropping seven hundred metres into a fog-filled gorge where araucarias cling to the rim."
Wilderness Bananal Island
"The world's largest river island — a Karajá homeland where the Araguaia splits into two channels."
City Belém
"Açaí bowls thick as mousse at a tidal market where the Amazon finally meets the sea."
Water Bonito
"Rivers so transparent the fish cast shadows on the white sand riverbed below you."
City Brasília
"A modernist capital conjured from red dust where Niemeyer's concrete curves defy the cerrado."
Water Cânion do Xingó
"Turquoise water carving through sixty-metre canyon walls in the baking sertão of northeast Brazil."
Water Canoa Quebrada
"Blood-red cliffs dropping to a beach where wooden jangada rafts glide on emerald water."
Wilderness Canudos
"The sertão battlefield where a millenarian prophet held off the Brazilian army four times before falling."
Mountain Canyon Guartelá
"Ancient Devonian rock carved into a canyon deep enough to swallow clouds above the Iapó River."
Water Capitólio
"Canyon walls dropping into an emerald lake where waterfalls pour from the cliff rim above."
Mountain Chapada das Mesas
"Tabletop mountains and turquoise waterfall pools in a chapada few Brazilians have heard of."
Mountain Chapada Diamantina
"Tabletop mountains, underground rivers, and a waterfall taller than the Eiffel Tower hidden in the sertão."
Mountain Chapada do Araripe
"Cretaceous pterodactyl fossils embedded in plateau rock at the Americas' first UNESCO Global Geopark."
Wilderness Chapada dos Veadeiros
"Crystal quartzite pools and rare wildflowers blazing across billion-year-old rock in the cerrado."
Water Conceição do Mato Dentro
"A waterfall nearly three hundred metres tall plunging down the Serra do Espinhaço escarpment into cloud."
City Congonhas
"Twelve soapstone prophets carved by a sculptor whose failing hands were strapped to his chisels."
Wilderness Cristalino Private Reserve
"A canopy tower rising above unbroken Amazon where harpy eagles and tapirs ignore your presence."
Water Delta do Parnaíba
"Scarlet ibis clouds erupting from mangroves in a river delta opening straight into the Atlantic."
City Diamantina
"A diamond-rush town clinging to a mountainside where the future builder of Brasília grew up barefoot."
Water Fernando de Noronha
"Volcanic spires rising from water so clear the seafloor glows up at you from the clifftop."
Water Foz do Iguaçu
"Two hundred and seventy-five waterfalls thundering into a gorge called the Devil's Throat."
City Goiás Velho
"An eighteenth-century gold town where hooded figures carry torches through darkened streets at Easter."
Wilderness Ilha de Marajó
"An island the size of Switzerland where water buffalo roam free and the roads are rivers."
Water Ilha Grande
"A car-free tropical island where former prison ruins dissolve into the Atlantic Forest."
City Inhotim
"Contemporary art pavilions dissolving into tropical botanical gardens across a valley in rural Minas Gerais."
Water Itacaré
"Atlantic Forest waterfalls tumbling onto empty surf beaches along the old cacao coast."
Wilderness Itaúnas
"Sand dunes that swallowed an entire village, now a forró-dancing outpost on a wild coast."
Water Jericoacoara
"Windswept dunes where the sun melts into the sea from a natural stone arch."
Wilderness Lençóis Maranhenses
"Thousands of rain-filled lagoons between white dunes stretching to the horizon like another planet."
Water Mangue Seco
"Sand dunes swallowing a fishing village accessible only by boat across a tidal river."
Water Novo Airão
"Wild pink river dolphins nudging your hands in the tea-dark water of the Rio Negro."
City Olinda
"Candy-coloured colonial streets tumbling downhill to the sea, alive with maracatu drums and giant puppets."
City Ouro Preto
"Baroque churches dripping gold leaf in a mining town where the cobblestones still remember revolution."
Wilderness Pantanal
"The world's largest tropical wetland where jaguars hunt caimans on the riverbank at dawn."
City Paranapiacaba
"A fog-wrapped Victorian railway village built by the British in the Atlantic Forest above São Paulo."
City Paraty
"A colonial port where the ocean floods the cobblestones at high tide and jungle presses close."
Mountain Pedra Azul
"A granite monolith that turns blue at dawn, erupting from Atlantic Forest like a wave."
City Pirenópolis
"Colonial streets erupting in costumed cavalry battles between Moors and Christians every Pentecost."
City Pomerode
"Half-timbered Fachwerk houses and East Pomeranian German spoken in the streets of subtropical Brazil."
Water Praia da Pipa
"Spinner dolphins in a turquoise bay framed by red sandstone cliffs and Atlantic Forest."
Water Praia do Rosa
"Southern right whales surfacing so close to the beach you can hear them breathe."
Water Praia dos Carneiros
"A whitewashed chapel with its feet in the tide beside coconut groves and reef pools."
Water Presidente Figueiredo
"Over a hundred waterfalls crashing through primary jungle two hours north of the Amazon's largest city."
City Rio de Janeiro
"Granite peaks erupting from tropical forest between lagoon and ocean, a landscape no city should have."
City Salvador
"Drum rhythms ricocheting off pastel colonial walls where capoeira circles form before sundown."
City São João del-Rei
"Church bells from three baroque towers answering each other across a valley still lit by gaslight."
Mountain São Joaquim
"Apple orchards under frost in a highland town where Brazil forgets it's supposed to be tropical."
Mountain São José dos Ausentes
"The most isolated town in southern Brazil, ringed by canyons and frozen grasslands at dawn."
City São Luís
"Entire streets tiled in Portuguese azulejos, crumbling colonial facades baking in equatorial heat."
City São Miguel das Missões
"Sandstone ruins of a Jesuit republic where Guaraní musicians once played baroque violins."
Wilderness Serra da Canastra
"The São Francisco River born from a crack in a cerrado plateau patrolled by maned wolves."
Wilderness Serra do Cipó
"Campos rupestres — ancient stone meadows found nowhere else on Earth — carpeting a mountain spine."
Mountain Serra do Rio do Rastro
"Over two hundred hairpin bends carved into a sheer cliff face that descends through clouds."
Mountain Serra dos Órgãos
"Granite spires like a pipe organ rising from cloud forest, including the notorious Dedo de Deus."
Mountain Triunfo
"A cloud-forest oasis above the sertão where cold springs flow and colonial mansions survive the heat."
Mountain Urubici
"Frost-coated araucaria forests and canyon rims at the frozen heart of subtropical Brazil."
Wilderness Vale do Catimbau
"Wind-carved sandstone cathedrals hiding thousands of years of rock art in the sertão."
Wilderness Xixuaú Reserve
"Giant river otters hunting in convoy in a community-run Amazonian reserve three days from anywhere."