Museo Schafferer

Amazon Basin


One of the most typically Tyrolean buildings in Pozuzo, wood-panelled and with a steeply pitched roof, this museum contains the intriguing history of the Germanic adventurers (OK, there were a few Belgians, too) who voyaged all the way out to this part of the Amazon to settle it in the mid-19th century.


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Nearby Amazon Basin attractions

1. Pozuzo

0.16 MILES

The inexorably Germanic Pozuzo, three hours north of Oxapampa by daily minibus, is picturebook Tyrolean, from the architecture to the residents, straight…

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