Pantanal Wildlife Center
Once a traditional cattle ranch called Fazenda Santa Tereza, the Pantanal Wildlife Center is quite probably the Pantanal’s leading wildlife lodge.
Today it is a ten bedroom eco-lodge on 3,500 hectares of flooded lands situated at the end of Rio Pixaim River, only two hours by all-season road from the major jetport of Cuiabá. The lodge’s location on the banks of this river is ideal due to it being the only navigable body of water on the Transpantaneira Road until its terminus at the mighty São Lourenço (or Cuiabá) River, the site of Jaguar Research Centre.
The Transpantaneira is the only year-round road that penetrates the core of the Pantanal, and the PWC is also the only lodge in Brazil owned and operated by an internationally-known, PhD conservation biologist and National Geographic author. The lodge offers the Pantanal’s best value for serious birders, naturalists, and photographers – you can embark on river boat safaris, seek monkeys, capybaras, caimans, giant otters and many bird species as well as explore the marked trails through the forest surrounding the lodge.
The lodge offers air-conditioning, high speed wireless internet, and the Pantanal’s only electric photo catamarans. In addition it boasts the world’s only observation towers which are strategically located at fruiting and flowering trees, and also a series of other unique features that combine the best of field research, wildlife film making, and hospitality. Activities include riding, cattle drives, trail walking, mammal spotting, birding, night time caiman watching, viewing towers, research lectures and Brazilian barbeques.
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