Chapada Diamantina National Park Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
national park in Palmeiras, Mucugê, Lençóis, Ibicoara and Andaraí, Bahia
About Chapada Diamantina National Park
The national park was created in 1985 to protect Serra do Cincorá and to attract growing number of ecotourists. This scenery mountain range includes mountains, valleys, monoliths, caves, rivers and waterfalls. Highest parts of the park raise over 2000 m above sea level (average being 1000 m above sea level) and offer breathtaking views. The area is about 400 km inland, west of Salvador in Bahia state in the Northeast region of Brazil in the middle of the dry sertão (back-country plains). It is an important water source with many rivers starting here. These rivers make incredible waterfalls as they fall off the vertical walls of the mountains. The vegetation is of open grassy fields with isolated trees (similar to the African savannah) with some thicker vegetation along the rivers. At the t
Chapada Diamantina National Park Travel Guide Sections
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