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The colourful entrance to the Valeria River.

Boca da Valeria is one of thousands of tiny settlements in the Amazon basin: fewer than a hundred people live here in wooden stilt-houses, with a dirt path in front and the river behind. The community makes its living from the river and each house has a boat slung at the back. There’s a single-room school, a small church and a communal manioc farm, all of which can be visited. On the waterfront, thatched-roof stalls sell hand-made crafts made by local people and those from neighbouring villages.