Anavilhanas Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
national park in Brazil
About Anavilhanas
A complex of more than 400 islands with hundreds of lakes and channels, compose the famous Anavilhanas, which is located between the cities of Manaus and Novo Airão. Due to the great biodiversity and distincts ecosystems, Anavilhanas is the second world’s largest fluvial archipelagos, losing only to Mariuá, which is also at the Rio Negro, close to the city of Barcelos. At 1981 it was promoted to the category of Ecological Station, and since then it is part of the group of Conservation Unities of the lower Rio Negro. In 2008 it was promoted Nacional Park status. The formation of the islands are due to the flocculation (sedimentation of solid particles) of the Rio Branco, which over hundreds of years helped to form the archipelago. But, they are in constant change, because there is a contin
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