Street View Brazil
Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world and the Street View coverage reflects both its cities and the emptiness between them. The coastal belt is dense; inland, the imagery follows highways across distances that take days to drive.
City guides
1 written guide for Brazil, each with the streets worth walking and the views worth opening.
What the coverage is like
The coastal cities from Recife down to Porto Alegre are covered thoroughly, along with the road network linking them.
Brasilia is worth opening for its own sake, because a city planned from nothing in the 1950s and laid out in the shape of an aeroplane reads very strangely at street level, where the distances between buildings are longer than anyone wants to walk.
Parts of the Amazon were captured by boat and on foot rather than by car, which is the only way it could have been done. River communities and forest trails exist in the imagery.
Worth opening beyond the city guides
Ouro Preto in Minas Gerais, a gold-rush town of steep cobbled streets and baroque churches, largely unchanged since the eighteenth century.
Iguazu Falls, captured on the walkways that go out over the water.
Brasilia's monumental axis, where Niemeyer's buildings sit far apart on open ground by design.
The Amazon around Manaus, including the meeting of the Rio Negro and the Solimoes, where two rivers of different colours run side by side without mixing for several kilometres.
Places to open
4 locations in Brazil, each one a single click into Street View at the right spot and facing the right way.
Questions about Street View in Brazil
Is the Amazon on Street View?
Parts of it. Sections were captured by boat and on foot rather than by car, so river communities and some forest trails are explorable, though coverage is a thin thread through an enormous area.