Santarém is a municipality in the western part of the state of Pará in Brazil. Located at the confluence of the Tapajós and Amazon Rivers, it has become a popular tourist destination. It is the second
Santarém Metropolitan Cathedral
Cannons from the Tapajós Fortress
Mirante do Tapajós Square
The Amazon River in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the second-longest or longest river system in the world, a title which is disputed with the Nile.
Santarém, Pará
…Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: ) is a municipality in the western part of the state of Pará in Brazil. Located at the confluence of the Tapajós and Amazon Rivers, it has become a popular tourist destination. It is the second-most important city in the state, and the financial and economic center of the western…
Old drawing (from 1879) of Arapaima fishing at the Amazon River. The arapaima has been on Earth for at least 23 million years.
Amazon tributaries near Manaus
Amazon Theatre opera house in Manaus built in 1896 during the rubber boom