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Article: If You Only Have A Day In Manaus, Brazil.
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- Cruise Travel
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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This fascinating inland port, 1,000 miles up the Amazon River, offers historical perspective of the 19th century rubber boom
Veteran cruise passengers know that every port has its own personality and look. Just the same, one thing almost all have in common is that they are on a major body of water--the Mediterranean or Caribbean seas, the Atlantic or Pacific oceans, for example. There is, however, one major exception--Manaus, Brazil.
While regularly visited by major cruise ships, the port of Manaus is nearly 1,000 miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean. To reach it, ships on Atlantic cruises pause near the Brazilian coastal city of Macada at the Santana ...