Floods occur regularly in the Paraguay River, but in July 2014 and December 2015, the river height reached respectively 7.38 m and 7.73 m (the highest river height in history was 9.00 m and the critical flood level was 5.50 m), more than 4 meters above the level where many people lived along the banks of the Paraguay River. The majority of these victims were in the city of Asunción and its surroundings.
Now, the installation at the MUSA – Museu da Amazonia (Amazonian Museum) in Manaus brings back the work done in 2014 and 2015 as a motto. While the floating city in Manaus played a vital cultural and economic role in urban life in the recent past, we have been gradually moving away from this distinctive feature of Amazonian cities as the population has moved deeper into the forest.
