Transpantaneira
The wetland road.
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Poconé is a town in Mato Grosso, about a hundred kilometres from Cuiabá, and the northern gateway to the Pantanal wetlands: here begins the famous Transpantaneira road, which crosses the flooded plains towards Porto Jofre. The Bento Gomes River runs a few kilometres away, and the municipality holds part of the Taiamã Ecological Station and about 57% of the Encontro das Águas State Park, created in 2004 over some 109,000 hectares and one of the best-known places to see jaguars in the wild. Travellers stop in Poconé to stock up and stay before heading down the dirt road, and farms and eco-lodges around it run trips to watch birds, caimans and giant otters. The best time for wildlife is the dry season, roughly July to October.
The wetland road.
At Encontro das Águas.
And caimans.
Poconé, about 100 km from Cuiabá, Mato Grosso state
In the dry season, roughly July to October.