section_path: Tourism/Rodrigues Alves Wood–Botanical Garden
section_name: Rodrigues Alves Wood–Botanical Garden
paragraph_text: Rodrigues Alves Wood–Botanical Garden
  
  Inspired by the Bois de Boulogne Park in Paris, the Rodrigues Alves Wood is a little piece of Amazonia preserved in the middle of the city. Comprising 16 hectares, in the ample Avenida Almirante Barroso, one of the city's busiest thoroughfares, having 2,500 native species, an orchidary, lakes, caverns, waterfalls and even a replica of a mountain. There you can see small animals characteristic to the region, such as squirrel monkeys, agoutis and macaws.