There was more prosperous city, no admired and envied in all the amazonian river basin. Its history begins in 1669, with the foundation of the fort of San jOse gives to Bar do Negro river, to 18 kilometers of the encounter of waters, where the Black and the Solimoes join their respective currents without mixing itself during a good section, a dark cleaning and, the other chocolate-like one by its slime, in a spectacle of unusual cromatismo. Lost in the heat of virgin forest, the small village that settled down around to his spent two centuries isolated of the rest of the country and the world.

Towards 1890, the operation of the rubber and the concentration of the exports in Manaos made bloom a social and cultural infrastructure without precedents. The tycoons of the rubber moved fabulous sums of money and were these rich again die those that decided to transform Manaos into a metropolis in the style of those of the Old Continent.

The authentic jewel of Manaos is the theater Amazon, the major exabrupto of the times of the rubber splendor. Projected completely in Portugal, it was inaugurated in 1896. In its excessive vanguardista eagerness, the new aristocracy of Manaos did not doubt in contracting the most famous European artists of that one time. Horsemen of frock coat and women with mink coats, glamour first of all despite the suffocating tropical heats.

In Manaos, the climate is warm and humid, with 27ºC of annual average and slight monthly variations. The time of rains is of December to May, whereas the dry sandal of June to November. Each owns its enchantments. During rains the deep forest is visitable sailing by arms and sewers that in the dry station disappear. On the contrary, during this one, when lowering the level of waters, appears beaches in the shores that become apt to walk.

Jaguar Jungle Survival develops its activity in the zone of the River Negro, Solimoes or Amazon and our it soothes is located in the city of Manaos, from begins our adventure here.