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Masked trogon Trogon personatus © Tomas Sigrist http://www.avisbrasilis.com.br

Roraima is a state in the North region of Brazil.

Below are some of its top attractions and websites to the reserves and many places to stay where birding is an option. We welcome a proper introduction to this page from someone who knows the area well.

The state of Roraima lies in the far north of Brazil bordering both Guyana and Venezuela. It is still a frontier zone with agriculture, forestry and mining impinging on the wild world and indigenous peoples. When its grasslands were discovered in the mid-eighteenth century they were thought ideal cattle country. During the late 1980s there was a massive gold rush here with an influx of as many as 50,000 garimpeiros - the area`s total population had been about 200,000 before. This influx in the northwest of the state was formerly the territory of the Yanomami Indians, a relatively recently discovered people.