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Brasilia and Chapada Dos Veadeiros

Season 11 Episode 1107

Brazil’s capital city, far removed from the Amazon, sits on a plateau that is also home to home rugged cliffs, streams, and waterfalls, indigenous communities, homesteads of pioneering families, and habitats found in these mountains and nowhere else.

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