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Chapada Diamantina Canyon in Vale do Capão, Bahia Pictographs in Parque Nacional da Chapada Diamantina. Chapada Diamantina ([ʃaˈpadɐ dʒi.ɐmɐ̃ˈtʃĩnɐ]; Portuguese for the "Diamond Plateau") is a region of Bahia state, in the Northeast of Brazil. This mountain range is known as “Serra do Espinhaço,” in Minas Gerais state, south of ...
The Chapada Diamantina National Park (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʃaˈpadɐ dʒi.amɐ̃ˈtʃĩnɐ]; Portuguese: Parque Nacional da Chapada Diamantina) is a national park in the Chapada Diamantina [a] region of the State of Bahia, Brazil. The terrain is rugged, and mainly covered by flora of the Caatinga biome.
The Bahia's upper backlands and most of Chapada Diamantina, located in the center and center-south of Bahia, had a different historical and social formation from the rest of the Sertão, as they were occupied in the 18th and 19th centuries by the extraction of precious stones, with the massive use of enslaved African labour. Despite this, these ...
A view of Chapada Diamantina National Park in Bahia, Brazil. A chapada (Portuguese pronunciation:) is a plateau found in the Brazilian Highlands.The chapadas, which are usually described as mountain ranges, are capped by horizontal strata of sandstone.
View history; General What links here; Related changes; ... The Mount of Pai Inácio (Morro do Pai Inácio) is located in Chapada Diamantina National Park in Brazil.
During the 19th and 20th centuries, Manuscript 512 was the object of intense debate and instigated many expeditions by adventurers and investigators, notably Sir Richard F. Burton, who published the work Highlands of Brazil in 1869, and Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, who disappeared on one of his "Lost City of Z" expeditions through inner ...
In 1985, the Chapada Diamantina National Park was created with its headquarters in Palmeiras. Kiriri people live in the Kiriri Indigenous Territory , an indigenous territory . Through their successful political organization, they were able to expel 1,200 non-native squatters from their lands since 1990.
The Chapada do Araripe is a large chapada, a plateau, which is significant both for natural and cultural properties. It has some of Brazil's best palaeontological sites, the Santana Group, with the Crato, Ipubi and Romualdo Formations from the Early Cretaceous. It is also the only region where the bird Araripe manakin lives.