Amazon Basin, Brazil

This scene is an original illustration set in Amazon Basin, Brazil. It lies in equatorial latitudes.

Near the equator, day length barely changes across the year, and the sun passes close to overhead at noon.

Terpano's illustrations use flat colour and paper grain rather than gradients or photographic detail, so every readable clue has to be drawn deliberately.

Nothing in the frame names the place. There are no signs to read, no map labels, no watermarks of location — only the things a landscape reveals about itself: the angle of the light, the pitch and material of the roofs, which plants grow and how they are spaced, what the ground is made of, and how people have worked it.

Terpano is a free daily geography puzzle. You study one original illustration, place a pin on a borderless terrain map, and see how close you were. There is no account and no sign-up; progress stays in your own browser. It plays in eleven languages.