Boa Vista: the Amazonian gateway to Mount Roraima

The only Brazilian state capital entirely planned from scratch, Boa Vista is also the departure point for reaching Mount Roraima, the plateau that inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Lost World'.

The centre is explored on foot; reaching Roraima requires a multi-day tour.

The center of Boa Vista was designed in the nineteen-forties with a radial layout starting from the Praça do Centro Cívico, the city's administrative heart.

Just steps away, the Rio Branco riverfront offers fluvial beaches where residents cool off during the year's hottest months.

For those with more days available, an excursion leads to Mount Roraima, a plateau with vertical walls that inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's novel 'The Lost World'.

At the foot of the mountain, the unique ecosystem of the summit hosts carnivorous plants and animal species that exist nowhere else on the planet.

The summit of Mount Roraima, isolated for millions of years by vertical walls surrounding it, has developed an endemic ecosystem that inspired not only Conan Doyle but also the animated film 'Up'.

Boa Vista remains the only state capital in Brazil situated entirely north of the equator—a geographical detail that gifts it a climate different from the rest of the country.