Amazon Theatre
Opulent opera house built during the rubber boom, with a pink dome of tiles in the national colours. Guided visits show the gilded interior, and performances are held in the main hall.
Manaus and the Amazon
The Meeting of the Waters, boat trips and jungle lodges are all reached from this river city at the centre of the Amazon.
Attractive locations
Amazon Rainforest
The vast tropical forest around Manaus, explored on boat trips, jungle lodges and short treks. Visitors look for monkeys, birds, caimans and river dolphins along the waterways.
Manaus Metropolitan Cathedral
Main Catholic church of the city, near the port and the old centre. Its plain white towers face a leafy square that is a pleasant stop on a walk through the historic district.
Mercado Adolpho Lisboa
Iron-framed market hall beside the river, inspired by Les Halles in Paris. Stalls sell fish, fruit, herbs, handicrafts and Amazon specialties.
Rio Negro Palace
Early 20th-century mansion built for a rubber baron, now a cultural centre with museum rooms and rotating exhibitions about the region's history.
Meeting of the Waters
The place near Manaus where the dark Rio Negro and the sandy-coloured Solimões flow side by side for several kilometres without mixing. Boat trips take visitors to see the sharp line between them.
Anavilhanas National Park
A large archipelago of forested islands in the Rio Negro, with flooded forest, quiet channels and wildlife. It is visited on boat tours and lodge stays from the Manaus area.
Airports
Eduardo Gomes International Airport MAO
It is about 9 km in a straight line from Manaus and the Amazon.
Scams and safe taxis
Weather by month
Each month shows its average temperature in °C and its mm of rain per month.
- Jan26.5 °C224 mm
- Feb26.2 °C236 mm
- Mar26.2 °C268 mm
- Apr26.1 °C262 mm
- May26.2 °C205 mm
- Jun26.0 °C119 mm
- Jul26.3 °C76 mm
- Aug27.6 °C50 mm
- Sep29.0 °C68 mm
- Oct29.2 °C103 mm
- Nov28.4 °C135 mm
- Dec27.1 °C213 mm
Driest months: Jul, Aug, Sep. Wettest months: Feb, Mar, Apr.
Costs
Prices here are about 46% of US prices (World Bank, 2025). This compares a country's overall prices, not the cost of a trip.
Who can help
Emergency
Police 190. Ambulance 192. Fire 193.
local government
Military Police emergency number 190
Helps with: Brazil's national telecom regulator lists 190 as the Military Police code. The same list gives 192 for the SAMU ambulance, 193 for fire, 194 for Federal Police and 197 for Civil Police.
Who qualifies: Anyone in Brazil who needs the police urgently, including visitors.
Phone: 190
local government
Civil Defence (Defesa Civil) number 199
Helps with: Brazil's civil defence service for floods, landslides and other disasters, listed by the national telecom regulator and the Ministry of Communications as the Defesa Civil emergency number.
Who qualifies: Anyone in Brazil affected by a disaster or at risk from one.
Phone: 199
ngo
Brazilian Red Cross (Cruz Vermelha Brasileira)
Helps with: Brazil's national Red Cross society, headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. Its site describes first aid courses, health care in disasters, disaster risk management and work reconnecting migrants with their families.
Who qualifies: People in Brazil who need its first aid, health, disaster or family-reconnection services.
Address: Praca Cruz Vermelha 10, Centro, Rio de Janeiro
un agency
International Organization for Migration (IOM) Brazil
Helps with: The UN migration agency, in Brazil since 2016. It supports migrants, returnees, displaced people and host communities, and works with governments on migration. Its office is in Brasilia.
Who qualifies: Migrants, returnees and displaced people in Brazil. It is not a help service for ordinary tourists.
Address: SAUS Quadra 5, Bloco N, Ed. OAB, Salas 401 a 412, Asa Sul, Brasilia-DF, 70070-913