High trees of thin trunks and aerial roots, thick lianas like branches, palm trees and thousands of orchids. Monkeys jump over "cedros", "maçrandubas" and "Itaúbas", trees at about 50 metres high. In the rivers, 2,000 different species of fish. In the air, over a thousand species of birds. Having in its capital – Manaus – the gateway to the great forest. .Manaus is surprising for its mixture of modern avenues and industrial districts with the legacy of the rubber wealth and the most traditional feature of the Brazilian people: the Indian culture. One million and a half people in the middle of the forest. Manaus is the clearest invasion of the forest by the human being. It is modern and antique. Industrial and archaic. Rich and poor. Born in the wealth of the rubber, attracted the Europeans, who built, down here, buildings very similar to the European ones.

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