Location  

NORTH PANTANAL, FEATURING JAGUAR RESEARCH CENTER AND PANTANAL WILDLIFE CENTER

Located in central-western Brazil, the Pantanal is a UK-sized mosaic of seasonally-flooded savannahs and tropical forests that features the finest wildlife viewing in Latin America.

This area harbors a world-record 82 species of large birds, thousands of which can be seen during a 1-h drive on the raised Transpantaneira Road, the only all-year route that penetrates the heart of this enormous wildland.

At the end of the Transpantaneira Road winds a labyrinth of rivers on which our specially-trained trackers and boatmen showed 125 Jaguars to travelers on 81 search days from 15 June through 20 October 2007. No other locations in the world can offer anything like this number of Jaguars per day. Most of our clients also saw Tapirs and Giant Otters.


At 150,000 square kilometers (the size of England and Wales), the Pantanal is the world's largest freshwater wetland.

Located just south of the Amazon Basin, it drains water from the upper reaches of the Paraguay River Basin. The Cuiabá River flows into the Paraguay River, which then later joins the Paraná River to form the Rio da la Plata, which enters the Atlantic Ocean much further south at the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires.

About 85% of the Pantanal lies in Brazil, 10% in Bolivia, and 5% in Paraguay. There are only three jetports in the Pantanal—Cuiabá, Campo Grande, and Corumbá.



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