Qualla: Purus National Forest https://qualla.com/purus-national-forest en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/q/x/b/purus-national-forest-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Purus National Forest https://qualla.com/purus-national-forest Purus National Forest: Introduction https://qualla.com/purus-national-forest/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. To reach the central village of Ceu do Mapia - Heaven of Mapia - you need at least six hours by road from Rio Branco to Boca do Acre, and then another six hours by boat up the Purus River and into the smaller Mapia stream. During the dry season the stream is too shallow to run, and the only way in or out is on foot through the forest. This is the kind of remoteness that, in most places, makes a community isolated. Here it has made one famous. The Purus National Forest exists, in part, to protect the people who live there and the sacrament they drink.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/q/x/b/purus-national-forest-wp/6qxb-purus-national-forest-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Purus National Forest: A Forest With a Center https://qualla.com/purus-national-forest/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The Purus National Forest covers 256,000 hectares of dense Amazon rainforest in the municipality of Pauini, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. It runs along the west bank of the Purus River, downstream from Boca do Acre. The boundaries are drawn in a way that is unusual for a Br...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/q/x/b/purus-national-forest-wp/6qxb-purus-national-forest-a-forest-with-a-center.mp3 0:06 2 full Purus National Forest: Santo Daime https://qualla.com/purus-national-forest/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Ceu do Mapia is the international heart of Santo Daime, a religion that blends Catholic Christianity with practices from Afro-Brazilian traditions and indigenous Amazonian plant medicine. At its center is a tea brewed from two rainforest plants - the ayahuasca vine and the chacru...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/q/x/b/purus-national-forest-wp/6qxb-purus-national-forest-santo-daime.mp3 0:06 3 full Purus National Forest: The Actual Forest https://qualla.com/purus-national-forest/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The ecosystem around the village is worth the trip on its own. The canopy reaches fifty meters in the terra firme uplands - areas above the floodplain - sustained by trees like the Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa), the massive Dinizia excelsa, and various Anacardium species. Alo...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/q/x/b/purus-national-forest-wp/6qxb-purus-national-forest-the-actual-forest.mp3 0:06 4 full Purus National Forest: Sustainable Use https://qualla.com/purus-national-forest/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The Purus National Forest was created by federal decree on 21 June 1988, and is classified as IUCN category VI - a protected area managed for sustainable use. The Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation administers it. In 2005 the federal colonization agency recogniz...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/q/x/b/purus-national-forest-wp/6qxb-purus-national-forest-sustainable-use.mp3 0:06 5 full Purus National Forest: What the Borders Don't Stop https://qualla.com/purus-national-forest/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The forest doesn't exist in isolation. The Inauini/Teuini Indigenous Territory overlaps parts of its northern boundary; the Mapia-Inauini National Forest sits immediately to the west; the Camicua Indigenous Territory adjoins the south. Together these protected areas form a contin...

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