Over the bridge, or across the river by boat, and into Bahia state lies Petrolina’s poorer sister town, JUAZEIRO, not to be confused with Juazeiro do Norte. Many of its inhabitants had their homes flooded when dams created the enormous Sobradinho lake just upstream in the 1960s. Since then the area around Juazeiro has […]
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