Tucurui

Tucurui is a municipality within the state of Para in the Northern region of Brazil. The city is served by way of Tucurui Airport. The name Tucurui is a Tupi phrase that means "river of ants" or "river of locusts". It's the concatenation of tupi words: tukura and 'y’. The city is very famous because of its significant Dam, the Tucurui Dam which is administered by means of Eletrobras Eletronorte - the constructor organization of this huge infrastructure task. In Tucurui, you could explore the dam lake, one in all the biggest artificial lakes ever made by guy.

It has 74.6 meters of depth and greater than 2.500 kilometers of overall extension. You can visit islands, fishing Cichla or Tambaqui and notice herbal beauties that you may handiest find in Amazon. You can also explore the historic web site of town with some antique homes and the Museum of Extinct Railroad - the ancient museum with lots of photographs and gadgets from the metropolis beginning.