Boca do Mamirauá Community
Comunidade Boca do Mamirauá
A riverbank community at the entrance to the reserve, where you can see stilt houses and floating homes, a cassava flour workshop, and how community-managed tourism works.
Boca do Mamirauá sits where a reserve waterway meets the Solimões River, and it is one of the communities taking part in lodge operations. A visit usually takes half a day. In the village you can see stilt houses and floating homes that rise and fall with the water level. You can visit a cassava flour (farinha) workshop, a craft cooperative, and the community school, and hear residents explain fishing quotas, patrols, and how tourism revenue is shared. You can also buy handicrafts made from seeds and palm fiber. Visits must be arranged in advance and led by a lodge guide. Ask for permission before photographing residents. Buying handicrafts in moderate amounts is one of the most direct ways to support the community.
Opening hours
Follows hostel itinerary
Nearby sights
- Uakari Floating Lodge
- Várzea Flooded Forest Canoe Trails
- Lake Mamirauá
- Tefé Town & Floating Port
- Lake Tefé