Zoológico Do CIGS 🐯 — Attraction in Região Geográfica Imediata de Manaus

A place more for families with children (playground + large figures of animals for photos). For tourist - hard to say, I spend 3 weeks in Manaus, so I had time to see a lot of places, that is NOT a 'must see'.

Price - 20R$

For a zoo, it has very few animals. Basically just monkeys (several varieties), wild cats (jaguars, puma, black panther), few birds (parrots, macaw, toucan, with 3 other species), 1 alligator, quati, some wild pig varieties, 1 boa snake, 1 genus of land turtles. Some places were empty. Some places did not have informations about animals. The aquarium building was under renovation so not available. 2 information and educational pavilions. There is also a cafe/bar (I didn't check the prices), a toilet and a shop where you can buy honey from the zoo's beehives.

My visit lasted less than 1.5 hours (taking photos and a longer stop at...

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