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# Tefé

Tefé, known in early accounts as Teffé or Ega, is a municipality in the state of Amazonas, northern Brazil.

[Plan a trip to Tefé](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Tef%C3%A9) [From Manaus](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Manaus&to=Tef%C3%A9)

## Every way there

- Manaus → Tefé 522 km · quickest by air, 3h 32m · R$330–510 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/manaus-to-tefe) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Manaus&to=Tef%C3%A9)
- Porto Velho → Tefé Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/porto-velho-to-tefe) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Porto+Velho&to=Tef%C3%A9)
- Rio Branco → Tefé Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/rio-branco-to-tefe) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Rio+Branco&to=Tef%C3%A9)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Tefé, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Tefé](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tefe)

What Tefé has

- N Scheduled flights nearest airport MAO is 519 km away
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 8 timetable feeds for this country, 1 with real-time
- Y Ferries Tefé, 1 km; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Coari, 192 km.

-3.354°, -64.711°

Get in

## Getting to Tefé

There are two options to get here: by air, on a 50-minute flight from Manaus to the small local airstrip; or by river, a three-day boat ride. All goods come in through the river network, from fruit and furniture to television antennas. There are no roads into Tefé. = = From Manaus, departing from Porto de Manaus - Estação Hidroviária do Amazonas (rua Taqueirinha nr. 25). Cost about R$ 150. Fênix.

Do

## Things to do

Visit the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve.

Eat

## Where to eat

You can eat a good carne de sol at Stylus Bar. Pizzaria Varandas is another good choice. Also, Dragon Express serves good yakisoba, with cheap prices, English-speaking attendants and 24-hour delivery available.

How locals move

## Getting around Tefé the local way

- Get around To get around, one can hire a mototaxi, which costs around $3,00 reais one way.

From [Wikivoyage: Tefé](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Tef%C3%A9), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-08.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tef%C3%A9) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Tef%C3%A9), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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