Satellite view of the Rio Negro's dark water threading hundreds of forested islands of the Mariuá archipelago

Rio Negro & Barcelos

Barcelos sits on the middle Rio Negro in Amazonas, up-river from Manaus, where the blackwater tributaries and the Mariuá archipelago spread out.

  • Amazonas · Brazil
  • 4 waters
  • 1 guides & lodges nearby
  • 1 shops nearby
Photo credit

Satellite image of part of the Mariuá archipelago on the Rio Negro at Barcelos, Amazonas. Photo: Coordenação-Geral de Observação da Terra/INPE, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

More about Rio Negro & Barcelos

Barcelos sits on the middle Rio Negro in Amazonas, up-river from Manaus, where the blackwater tributaries and the Mariuá archipelago spread out; lodges and barco-hotéis work the river from here.

Meet local guides and lodges

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1 guides and lodges within 150 miles (0 fly-focused, 1 lodge). Unclaimed listings, built from each business's own website: confirm licensing, rates and dates directly.

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  • Kalua Barco Hotel

    Barcelos, AM · 1 mi

    Lodge packages · Rio Negro

    • Unclaimed

    Website in Portuguese

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The Rio Negro & Barcelos area

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The circle is the 150-mile area this page covers, around Barcelos. Tap a water for its page. Shops and guides appear where they publish a street address on their own website; all of them are listed below.

Map of the Rio Negro & Barcelos area: its waters, shops and guides

Map of Rio Negro & Barcelos: the 150-mile area this page covers, its waters, and shops and guides with an exact address.

Waters around Barcelos

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The rivers, lakes or flats this hub is organised around. Where a nearby guide or lodge names a water on its own website, we say how many do. Seasons, closures and permits differ by water: check the agency pages under licence and rules.

Readings are the agency's own, shown with their time and marked when older than a day; a station whose agency publishes only an inventory is shown without a number. Nothing here is estimated.

  • Rio NegroNamed by 1 guide nearbyBARCELOS: the agency's service could not be read just now. Agency page
  • Rio Jufari
  • Rio Demeni
  • Rio Preto da Eva

Agency data, not estimated

Species guides mention

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1 guide and lodge website nearby name species of their own; counted below. This is what they advertise, not a promise of what you will catch.

  • Arapaima1
  • Peacock bass1
  • Redtail catfish1
  • Sorubim1
  • Traíra1

Licence, regulations and access

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Buy the permit from the agency or rights-holder and read its current rules before you go. These are the authoritative pages; nothing on this page grants or implies access to any water, and no fee is shown because none was read from an agency page with a date.

Ministério da Pesca e Aquicultura (MPA)

Fees on the agency page

Amateur and sport anglers register with the ministry (the federal licence); the Pantanal states add their own rules and closed seasons.

Licence page

Nothing here grants or implies access to any water.

1 guide and lodge listing

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Within 150 miles. Fly-focused operators first, then the best-documented listings. Distances are straight-line from the town centre. Every listing is unclaimed and built from the business's own website and an open map record; confirm licensing, rates and dates directly. Lodges and motherships are labelled as such.

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Few lodges listed so far. Know one? Suggest it.

1 shop listing nearby

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Fly shops first. A distance is shown when the shop's own website gives its location; otherwise the shop is included because it is in one of the towns around Barcelos. Confirm hours with the shop before you go.

  • BKT Pesca

    Manaus, AM

    Fishing shop

    • Unclaimed

Parks and visitor offices

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For the non-fishing days, or the people travelling with you. Official sources only; what to do there is for their pages to say. We do not list or price lodging or flights for this hub.

Gear checklist

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A wade-fishing checklist for big western trout rivers: a 9 ft 5–6 weight outfit, nymph, dry and streamer setups, waders, boots and a wading staff, with estimated prices by tier and where to buy.

A woman in waders and a sun hat wades a broad river and casts, bluffs on the far bank

Big western rivers (wade fishing)

9′ rod, 5–6 weight, floating line · Rainbow and brown trout, whitefish

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Watch: wade fishing a big river

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Covering broad water and staying upright in it.

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Stories from Amazonas

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Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly, tagged with a water in Amazonas, Brazil.

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Sources for this page

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Guide, lodge and shop listings come from the Legendary directories (open map records checked against each business's own website). Everything else links to the publisher below; this page copies none of their text. A destination hub organises discovery; it does not assert public access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions, and it estimates no price.

Links checked 20 Oct 2026. Not a claim of access or conditions.