How to get to Santarém?

Hey y’all, how are you feeling? I hope excellent. So, I’m here to tell you guys a little about how to get to our city. Located at 2º 24’52” S and 54º 42’36” W our city has about 300.000 inhabitants and is considered the most important town in west Pará. Santarém is between the two most important cities of northern Brazil, Belém and Manaus, which both have international flights from/to North, South America and Europe. Santarém also is destination of cruise ships departing mainly from Southern Caribbean or Europe with tourist that come to see the Amazon beauties.

Meeting of the rivers Tapajós and Amazonas

Cruise ship seen from the Trapiche restaurant

However, the point here is tell you the ways of transportation you can take to get to Santarém. You can come in 3 kinds of transportation: bus, boat and plane. The city has a harbor with boat lines that serves closer cities in the region; Belém and Manaus. The journey to the two last ones cities least about 2 to 3 days traveling through the Amazonas River.

P.s.: You'll need a hammock to sleep or rent a cabin.

The way through Amazonas river from Belém and Manaus to Santarém

By bus we have the Viação Ouro e Prata with bus line from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul to Santarém, Pará. It is about 4 to 5 days riding across 5 states from south to north Brazil.

Viação Ouro e Prata (Only in portuguese)

There is also an International Airport (without international flights :/) and it is the best way to arrive here.

Located 15 km away from downtown, it serves the region and is the entrance gate to the “Tapajós Pearl”. There are flights from the mainly Brazilian Airlines to/from many destinations in Brazil.

Santarém seen from up