Detailed regional map includes portions of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, the Guyanas, Peru, Surinam, and Venezuela. Elevations shown by color changes.

Legend locates cities and settlements of all sizes; roads from highways to unpaved roads; trails. Also airports and airstrips; railways. Hydrographic features such as glaciers, waterfalls, non-perennial streams, swamps and seasonally inundated land. Lighthouses; mines; wells; active volcanoes; ruins and other points of interest.

List of national parks and other protected areas. Glossary of abbreviations of geographic features translated into English, Spanish & Portuguese.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 1 review)

DECENT MAP, WITH A FEW SHORTCOMINGS

This is the only map I found that covers the entire Amazon region, from Ecuador to Brazil. Just that is a nice plus for someone planning a trip in the Amazon. It also provides the location and name of even the smallest isolated communities in the Amazon, which is helpful when trying to locate them.

As drawbacks, I would two main issues:
1. Some of the towns mentioned do not exist - there are a few point in the map that indicate there should be a city and, when I got there, I found nothing. There are not many, but it is a bad feeling I can tell you.
2. It does not differentiate between mid-size and small cities. The size of the letter is the same for a city of 10 thousand and for a community of 100, but for the traveler it make a huge difference.

I would recommend it as good reference, but I would not rely on it entirely to plan my trip, I think a guide like Bradt's or Lonely Planet's would be a welcome support.

November 23, 2005

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