Chapada dos GuimarãesAfter 70 km of Cuiabá, street MT 251 asphalted on this one, one reaches the little small town of name like "Chapada dos Guimarães" (approximately 17,000 inhabitants) in the mountains. Over the sea-level the climate during the whole year is here quite pleasantly freshly - a more welcomely vanishing point also for the Cuiabanos, their capital on a height of 811 to the hot towns of Brazil metre counts in the literal meaning. Above the small town is here lovably -- specially also his kind residents. And it is quiet here between the small, often centuries old Adobe houses on the edge of the alleys surfaced with cobble-stones. Rustic windows and portals, how one has not seen her for a long time any more. The ancient village church "Nossa Senhora de Santana do Sacramento" of 1779 which was built by slaves in a colonial baroque style particularly remarkably is.
Already for a long time before the foundation of the small town, in the year 1751, with the order to the local missionaries to settle there and to convert the rebellious Indians from different nations so that they did not prevent the colonizers from the exploitation of the gold mines any more the settlers already managed sugar cane plantations with her slaves and "Cachaça" as well as food produced for the population of Cuiabá and the surrounding mine areas. Chapada dos Guimarães lies on the edge of the "Parque Nacional de Chapada" -, and primarily, this one a universe at waterfalls, caves, peaks with lovely views, rock things formed by wind and weather also an interesting flora and fauna a national zone for conservation has ready. Walks by the enchanting landscape surprise by her impression of the Unberührtheit. The dominant "Cerrado" gives the landscape an inimitable architecture with his got trees - into exotic colours and fruits where one does not suspect her reveal flowers his Generosity. Nature presents a true show of the transformations in the Chapada dos Guimarães. Everything was covered by a thick ice crust here at the beginning, whole at the beginning 500 million years ago. Later rather later the sea penetrated, the desert then came, and after which everything became pasture for the dinosaurs. But salmon pink, red, yellow and green shimmering clouds there sails the former seabed raised itself in recent time, so 15 million years ago and the Chapada arose with immense Arenit rocks which seems to touch the sky and over which - an almost surreal landscape was created here. The "Cerrado" covers the former seabed on which one discovers fossilized mussels certainly today and the movements of the waves sunk into the rock. Here one speaks much about the strengths of nature, over God and other gods and over the hereafter. One finds medicinal herbs spriessen made of the rough ground and diamonds in the rock everywhere. Declutched cars take up here the mountain, in lieu of back roll and provide all rules of the gravity on the head. Esoterics think that this phenomenon has to be ascribed to the magnetic forces. Wants to explain it with an "optical deception" unbelieving. One always hears that news of UFO and the meetings here in the Chapada with Ausserirdischen first. There is the mysticism, and desert, valley of the dinosaurs "Zen Buddhism" then where statements do not grip and the climate brings the new era sea into the "Cerrado" which was covered by ice sometimes was and now. The "national park of Chapada dos Guimarães" surrounds an area of 33,000 hectares within which beautiful landscapes, more than 50 archaeological find places with rock paintings and prehistoric Fossilien, a great concentration of medicinal plants and ecosystems of great scientific value once are founded, 1989. To be watched easily have: Deer, wild boars, mane wolves, armadillos, macaws, toucans, parrots and different species of parakeet. The "national park of Chapada dos Guimarães" is opened daily between 08:00 and 17:00 hours, the admission amounts to about 2.00 euros. In principle, it is recommended to entrust himself to an accredited leader particularly since some sights are accessible only with such a one! Best visiting times are between August and November - fogs can obstruct the view between June and August (winter). It is December until April to warn and in the rainy season. Of course you drive with ours best, routing coordinated with her requests, the leader accredited and chosen by us is anyway then included! Copyright of 1998 - 2008 by sabiá brasilinfo All rights reserved! Photos, texts or parts of it may not be duplicated, copied or published by us without a previous written consent! Contraventions are pursued criminally. Further: Vegetation forms | Climate | Fauna | Tourism | Kitchen | History | Cuiaba | Chapada |
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