Paddling near Boa Vista, Roraima

Boa Vista sits on the banks of the Rio Branco in the savanna-covered state of Roraima, in Brazil's far north. The city is flanked by the Rio Branco and the Rio Cauamé, with the larger Rio Uraricoera and Rio Tacutu reachable within roughly 30 km. Paddling here means wide Amazonian-basin rivers and smaller igarapés threading through cerrado and gallery forest — flatwater by nature, remote by character.