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The Guardian - US
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Dan Collyns in Lima

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Javari valley the lawless primal wilderness where a journalist went missing - What They Never Told You

The Yavari River and Amazon rainforest, with Brazil on left bank and Peru on right.
The Yavari River and Amazon rainforest, with Brazil on left bank and Peru on right. Photograph: Amazon-Images/Alamy

In Brazil’s far west lies an immense swath of rainforest and rugged terrain reachable only by snaking brown rivers. Wedged alongside the border with Peru, the Javari valley is the largest refuge for Indigenous tribes living in isolation from the outside world.

“The Javari is one of the last true bastions of primal wilderness in the Amazon – and in the world,” said Scott Wallace, author of The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes.

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