Friday, July 28, 2006
The Amazon.
Leaving Belem by plane, the immediate stretches of water visible from the city itself, and which are certainly as wide as any river in Europe, are seen for what they are; narrow channels cutting between islands. The scale and majesty of the river defies the imagination. Marajó, the largest river island in the world, sits in the mouth, just above Belem. It is bigger than Switzerland. Macapá, the city on the other side of the river, is further from Belem than Manchester is from London.
Leaving Belem by plane, the immediate stretches of water visible from the city itself, and which are certainly as wide as any river in Europe, are seen for what they are; narrow channels cutting between islands. The scale and majesty of the river defies the imagination. Marajó, the largest river island in the world, sits in the mouth, just above Belem. It is bigger than Switzerland. Macapá, the city on the other side of the river, is further from Belem than Manchester is from London.
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