WASHINGTON (AP) — President joe biden will become the first sitting president to visit the Amazon rainforest later this month when he travels to Brazil as part of a six-day trip to Latin America for a pair of international summits, the White House said Thursday.

Biden will begin his trip with a Nov. 14-16 visit to Lima, Peru, where he will meet with the president. Dina Boluarte and attend the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. From there he will travel to Manaus and Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, from November 17 to 19.

In Manaus, Biden will visit the rainforest and see local, indigenous and other leaders who are working to preserve the region, the first such visit by a US president. In Rio de Janeiro, Biden will meet with the Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to promote workers’ rights and clean economic growth, the White House said. He will also attend the Group of 20 world leaders’ summit to discuss global challenges such as hunger, poverty and climate change.

Biden spoke earlier Thursday with Lula to discuss the upcoming G20 summit. It may also have been an opportunity for Biden to commiserate with a sympathetic world leader.

Left-leaning Lula made clear his preference for Democrat Kamala Harris ahead of the US elections. Lula defeated former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, known as the “Trump of the Tropics,” in 2022.

Biden is in the final months of his presidency and will hand over the Oval Office to Republican Donald Trump. The two summits will offer Biden one of his last opportunities as president to meet with heads of state with whom he has worked over the years.

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