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In the America's with David Yetman
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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