Parintins is an otherwise unremarkable small river town with a population of around 100,000 lying roughly halfway between Santarém and Manaus. In the last twenty years, however, it has become the unlikely centre of one of the largest mass events in Brazil, the Boi Bumbá celebrations, which take place in the last weekend of […]
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