Óbidos the “Cidade Presépio” – Pará – Brazil

The municipality originates from a fort built in 1697, but it was only officially created in 1755, in honor of the Portuguese village of the same name.

Óbidos is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Pará, in northern Brazil. The city was built on the left bank of the Amazon River, 1,100 km away from Belém by river, in a stretch where the river banks become narrower and its channel deeper, forming, as the region says, the ” canyon of the […]