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Jaú National Park Amazon Cruise
Remote blackwater rivers, flooded forest, and one of the Rio Negro's wildest protected landscapes.
Information about Jaú National Park
Jaú National Park is where a Brazilian Amazon cruise stops feeling like a route on a map and starts feeling like an expedition. The park protects a vast blackwater rainforest landscape northwest of Manaus, around the Jaú River basin and the Rio Negro system.
This is not a conventional port. Days here are about quiet movement: small boats on dark channels, flooded forest, forest walks when conditions allow, patient wildlife watching, and the feeling of entering a protected area where water level decides the plan.
For Rivertours, Jaú matters because the river is the access. You come for blackwater, igapó forest, remote scale, and the chance to understand why the Central Amazon Conservation Complex is one of the Amazon Basin's most important protected landscapes.
Interesting facts about Jaú National Park
Jaú National Park was created in 1980 and became part of UNESCO's Central Amazon Conservation Complex, first inscribed through Jaú in 2000.
The park covers more than 2.2 million hectares in Amazonas, roughly 220 km northwest of Manaus.
Its landscape is shaped by blackwater rivers, igapó flooded forest, lakes, beaches, and the Jaú River basin.
The wider UNESCO complex protects species such as giant otter, Amazonian manatee, black caiman, river dolphins, jaguar, harpy eagle, and pirarucu.
Access is remote and permission-based, which is why small, well-planned river expeditions fit the place better than casual sightseeing.
Pictures of Jaú National Park
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