Caiman spotting
At night.
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Iranduba is a municipality near Manaus in Amazonas state, on the left bank of the Solimões, linked to the capital by the Rio Negro bridge; with about fifty thousand people it is the state's smallest municipality by area, and the nearest way into the forest for visitors to Manaus. Ancient societies lived here where the Negro and Solimões rivers meet long before Europeans arrived; the modern town grew at the end of the first rubber cycle with the rubber tappers. Today it is the state's largest grower of fruit and vegetables and makes most of the bricks and tiles used there. It is dotted with jungle lodges where visitors go canoeing, spot caimans at night, fish for piranha, watch wildlife and tour the creeks. It also holds two of the state's main handicraft centres, around the Janauari and Acajatuba lakes.
At night.
In the creeks.
Janauari lake.
Iranduba, across the Rio Negro bridge from Manaus, Amazonas state
By car across the Rio Negro bridge.