Corumbá

A river port situated on the right bank of the River Paraguay on the Bolivian border, Corumbá is one of the oldest cities in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and one of the main points of departure for the Pantanal. Its name comes from the Tupi-Guarani and means a far-off place - the city is in the extreme west of Brazil and for a long time, access to it was very difficult and almost exclusively by means of the River Paraguay. Nowadays it is possible to get there by car, coach, train, plane as well as by boat.

Corumbá has preserved its churches and historic architectural monuments, including the General Port houses built in the nineteenth century, and the Telegraph Station built on palafittes early in the twentieth century. In addition to these buildings and tours of the Panatanal, the region also has attractions such as the Coimbra Fort, Porto Esperança, the mines at Urucum and Porto da Manga.