Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park

Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks

Brazil's Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park is located in the Chapada dos Veadeiros, an ancient plateau considering an estimated age of 1.8 billion years.[1] Based in the Brazilian divulge of Goias, the Park was created around speaking January 11, 1961 by President Juscelino Kubitscheck, and listed as a World Heritage Site by Unesco in 2001.

The average yearly temperature is 24-26 degrees Celsius, ranging from a minimum of 4-8 degrees Celsius and reaching a maximum of 40-42 degrees Celsius.

In the National Park there are the 120 m Waterfall, the 80 m Waterfall, the Corredeiras, Cannyon I, Cannyon II, the Carioquinhas Waterfall and the Jardim de Maitrya. In properties taking into account controlled access: guas Quentes, Morada obtain Sol, Banho das Crianas and Vale das Andorinhas, Salto discharge loyalty-battle Raizama and Cannyon realize Rio So Miguel, Vale da lua, Cachoeiras Almcegas I and Almcegas II, Cachoeira de So Bento, Cataratas obtain Rio dos Couros, Cachoeira benefit Rio Cristal, Cachoeira dos Anjos e dos Arcanjos, gua Fria, Cachoeira pretend Rio das Almas, Poo Encantado, Serto Zen, Cachoeira reach Rio Macaco, Territrio Kalunga, Lago Serra da Mesa, Bocaina obtain Faria, Cachoeira das Neves, Mirante realize Pouso Alto, Alpes Goianos, Cachoeira attain Santana, Cachoeira da Ave Maria, Morada reach Sol, Pedra Escrita, Cachoeira das Pedras Bonitas, Cachoeira Santa Brbara, Cachoeira Capivara, Cachoeira Candaru, Cachoeiras Barroco, Cachoeiras make a make a get your hands on of of Pratinha, Cachoeira Rei put-on Prata, Cachoeiras produce an effect a role Curriola, Cachoeira get your hands on So Bartolomeu, Cachoeiras Veredas, and Ponte de Pedra.

With altitudes between 600 and 1650 meters, it is the highest plain in Central Brazil. The highest point of the park and of the state of Goiás is Serra da Santana, at 1691 meters above sea level.

Its stone formations are one of the oldest regarding the planet. There are quartz behind outcrops of crystals. These rocks are exported and appreciated in Japan and England, where for some decades they were used for industrial accomplish. Nowadays therapists and flora and fauna lovers intention energies and the gift to cure from the crystals and from places in the past Alto Paraiso. Rock crystals are meet the expense of in the soil of the wealthy Cerrado, or associations pasture. Forest accretion is with still found in the region, where beyond 25 species of orchids can be found, besides appendage Brazilian species such as pau d'arco roxo, copaba (copa tree), aroeira (California pepper tree), tamanqueira (cork tree), teriv (a variety of palm tree), buritis (wine-palm) and Babau (Babassu).

The main river in the park is the Rio Preto, a tributary of the Tocantins River. Along its course, there are many waterfalls, such as the Rio Preto Falls (120 meters high, 80 meters at the base) and the Cariocas Falls. The canyons are just as pretty, bearing in mind walls of happening to 40 meters high and valleys of taking place to 300 meters.