Qualla: Xixuau https://qualla.com/xixuau 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/x/u/5/xixuau-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Xixuau https://qualla.com/xixuau Xixuau: Introduction https://qualla.com/xixuau/ Photo credit Lior Golgher, CC BY-SA 4.0. To reach Xixuau, you board a boat in Manaus that heads upstream on the Rio Negro toward Boa Vista. You get off the next day at Moura, where the Jauaperi empties into the Negro, and you find another boat - smaller, slower - to carry you up the Jauaperi. Thirty hours after leaving the city, the river delivers you to a cluster of palm-thatched malocas built in the round, peaked style of the neighboring Waimiri-Atroari. No road leads here. There are no fees, no permits, only an understanding that you reached out to the community through the Amazonia NGO before arriving, so that the people who live here knew you were coming.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/x/u/5/xixuau-wk/6xu5-xixuau-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Xixuau: A Village on the Jauaperi https://qualla.com/xixuau/ Photo credit Lior Golgher, CC BY-SA 4.0. Xixuau sits inside the Extractive Reserve Baixo Rio Branco-Rio Jauaperi, a stretch of protected forest along an affluent of the Rio Negro. The population is small and fluid - people move between communities along the rivers, following work or family or the season. The architectur...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/x/u/5/xixuau-wk/6xu5-xixuau-a-village-on-the-jauaperi.mp3 0:06 2 full Xixuau: The Forest That Moves https://qualla.com/xixuau/ Photo credit Lior Golgher, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Jauaperi breathes with the seasons. From March through September, the river swells and spills into the surrounding forest, and you can paddle a canoe through the trunks of trees standing in water up to their lower branches. This is the flooded forest, the igapó, a landscape t...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/x/u/5/xixuau-wk/6xu5-xixuau-the-forest-that-moves.mp3 0:06 3 full Xixuau: What Lives Here https://qualla.com/xixuau/ Photo credit Lior Golgher, CC BY-SA 4.0. A list of residents reads like an inventory of Amazonian abundance: giant river otters that hunt in pairs, armadillos that shuffle through the leaf litter, capuchin and spider monkeys moving through the canopy, marmosets smaller than a child's hand, tapirs thick as barrels, sloth...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/x/u/5/xixuau-wk/6xu5-xixuau-what-lives-here.mp3 0:06 4 full Xixuau: Brazil Nuts and Handiwork https://qualla.com/xixuau/ Photo credit Lior Golgher, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Brazil nut tree grows wild throughout the reserve, and each large woody fruit opens to reveal ten to fourteen nuts packed inside like segments of an orange. The community harvests them for food and for export, a source of income that relies on the forest staying intact. The w...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/x/u/5/xixuau-wk/6xu5-xixuau-brazil-nuts-and-handiwork.mp3 0:06 5 full Xixuau: Why the Trip Takes So Long https://qualla.com/xixuau/ Photo credit Lior Golgher, CC BY-SA 4.0. Thirty hours by boat from Manaus is not a logistical inconvenience. It is the whole point. The length of the journey preserves Xixuau as much as the formal protection of the Extractive Reserve does. Tourism that requires a full day and a half of river travel does not arrive by ac...

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