River towns, with 19th-century architecture from rubber-boom days,
include Brazil's Manaus and Belém and Peru's Iquitos and Puerto Maldonado.
River cities, with 19th-century architecture from rubber-boom days,
include Brazil's Manaus and Belém and Peru's Iquitos and Puerto Maldonado.
The Tagus waterfront has opened up in recent years, and you can now walk all the way from the central
Praça do Comércio to the historic suburb of Belém where Portugal's great navigators departed on their adventures.
Belém do Pará Convention(officially, the Inter-American Convention on the
Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women, adopted 1994), was the first regional treaty specific to violence against women and has led to changes in domestic legislation and public policy reforms that provide greater protection for women in some Latin American and Caribbean nations.