Paddling near Rio Verde, Goiás

Rio Verde sits in the agricultural heartland of southwestern Goiás, drained by a network of cerrado rivers. The surrounding watershed — including the Rio Verde (also called Rio Verdão), the Rio Verdinho, the Ribeirão da Abóbora, the Ribeirão Pirapitinga, and the more distant Rio Claro — gives paddlers access to calm interior waterways typical of the Brazilian cerrado plateau.