Qualla: Manacapuru https://qualla.com/manacapuru en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Manacapuru https://qualla.com/manacapuru Manacapuru: Introduction https://qualla.com/manacapuru/ The festival comes in August, and the town reshapes itself around it. The Festival de Cirandas de Manacapuru fills a purpose-built circus - the Cirandódromo - with dancers, drummers, and audiences pulled from across the Amazon region. Each night two groups perform, spinning their traditional circle dances for a panel of judges. The winner is named, the losers return the following year, and Manacapuru earns for another season its self-given title: Terra das Cirandas, the Land of Cirandas. The city of 102,000 sits on the Solimões River about 93 kilometers west of Manaus, a working Amazonian port that has come to depend on the festival the way some European towns depend on their saints. It is, outside the ten days of Cirandas, a quieter kind of jungle town - genuinely one, compared to the cityscape of the state capital.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/x/k/v/manacapuru-wk/6xkv-manacapuru-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Manacapuru: Getting There https://qualla.com/manacapuru/ The main approach from Manaus runs about 93 kilometers overland, crossing the Rio Negro on the Jornalista Phelippe Daou Bridge and then following the Manoel Urbano Highway - state road AM-070 - into Manacapuru. The trip takes about an hour by car. Buses run hourly from Manaus at ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/x/k/v/manacapuru-wk/6xkv-manacapuru-getting-there.mp3 0:06 2 full Manacapuru: The Port as Center https://qualla.com/manacapuru/ The Cais do Porto - the docks of the city center - is one of the main attractions, and its historical and regional function as a port is the reason Manacapuru exists. Boats headed upriver toward Colombia and Peru save hours by departing from Manacapuru instead of Manaus, and loca...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/x/k/v/manacapuru-wk/6xkv-manacapuru-the-port-as-center.mp3 0:06 3 full Manacapuru: Buildings That Held Governments https://qualla.com/manacapuru/ The old Câmara Municipal building - the City Council chambers - housed Manacapuru's executive branch during the 1930s, along with the state collector's office and the justice forum. In 1976 the permanent council settled into the building, which took the name Palácio Antero de Rez...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/x/k/v/manacapuru-wk/6xkv-manacapuru-buildings-that-held-governments.mp3 0:06 4 full Manacapuru: Out to the Reserve https://qualla.com/manacapuru/ Ecotourism brings thousands of visitors to the municipality each year. The Manacapuru Ecological Reserve, on the left bank of the Solimões, protects typical floodplain vegetation including the giant sumaúma trees - Ceiba pentandra, the kapok of Amazonian legend. The reserve funct...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/x/k/v/manacapuru-wk/6xkv-manacapuru-out-to-the-reserve.mp3 0:06 5 full Manacapuru: What Cirandas Sounds Like https://qualla.com/manacapuru/ The music of Manacapuru is ciranda and forró, two traditions that have Brazilian national recognition but take specific regional form here. Ciranda is the group circle dance whose festival shapes the city's year. Forró - the name comes, according to one etymology, from the phrase...

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