CHAPADA DOS GUIMARÃES:
The Chapada dos Guimarães
National Park in the State of Mato Grosso 65 kilometres from the city of Cuiabá,
is one of many Brazilian national Parks with the area of 33 thousand hectares.
The Plateau were the Park
is located, was created about 15 million years ago and extends on 6249 square
kilometers.
It is situated in geological centre of the South American continent. With
the altitude up to 900 meters above the sea level.
The Chapada possesses a pleasant
climate and can reach low temperatures in winter, mainly in July and August.
Among many attractions, there
are about 100 waterfalls, many caves and grottoes and 46 archeological sites.
TOURS:
-Waterfall of the
Veil:The postal Card from the Chapada, the Waterfall of the Veil,
formed by Coxipó River, possessed 86m of fall. Access by the MT-251 for Cuiabá (13km).
-Hill of Saint
Jerônimo: highest point
of the park, offers a fantastic view of the region.
-Cavern Aroe Jari
and Blue Lake:Considered one of the biggest caverns of sandstone
of Brazil, with approximately 1.400m of length. In their interior diverse
waterfalls beyond the Blue lake exist, a crystalline blue water native swimming
pool that reflects in the walls.
The prehistoric man left many
vestiges of his passage by the cavern. Access by the road for Green Field
(road dirt 41km) more path of 1h on foot.
-Rocky Formations Stone
city:carved by the wind and by
the rain, remembering ruins of a city, in a cânion formed by big wall of 350m
of height. Access by the road for
Cold Water (road 14km in dirt and sand).
-A walk of the Stone:Altar Stones, Thorn Stone,
Hat of Sun, Totem, Table of the Sacrifices and the Stone of the Alligator,
with small fossils little seas, healthy and curious formations rocky natives
of sandstone that look be balanced mysterious during the journey of 5km that
they form the Road of the Stones. There also the Lookout is found of hill Saint
Jerônimo with pretty sight for the Plain Pantaneira, beyond the Mushroom of
Stone, zone archaeological with prehistoric paintings. Access by path (12km).
-Home of Stone
and the Road of the Waters: The river Seven of September forms
a cavern of sandstone called House of Stone and it compose a sequence of waterfalls
called of Road of the Waters. Between
the waterfalls, they are the of the Sonrisal, from the Swallow and of the
Jump. Access by path (12km).
-Gate of the Hell:Lookout
in the brink from the highway providing the sight from the City of Stone.
. Access by the MT-251 for Cuiabá (18km). They exist diverse other appeals: waterfalls from the Martinha and
of the Pingador, Paredão of the Echo, Lookout from the Geodésia and Farm Xaraés.
-The city and theirs
houses: The colonial baroque style is present in everybody the
constructions that still they resist to the time, dated of the centuries XVII
and XVIII, spreaded by the city of Chapada of the Guimarães.
-Our church Lady
of Santana of the Sacrament: Built by slaves in 1779, in baroque
style, possess the altar painted to gold still conserved. Located in the Plaza Wunibaldo, in the city of Chapada of the Guimarães