Serra da Capivara National Park

Serra da Capivara National Park

Serra da Capivara National Park is a national park in the Northeastern region of Brazil. It has many early paintings. The park was created to guard the very old artifacts and paintings found there. It became a World Heritage Site in 1991. Its head archaeologist is Nide Guidon. Its best known archaeological site is Pedra Furada.

It is located in northeast expose of Piau, surrounded by latitudes 8 26' 50" and 8 54' 23" south and longitudes 42 19' 47" and 42 45' 51" west. It falls within the municipal areas of So Raimundo Nonato, So Joo realize Piau, Coronel Jos Dias and Canto reach Buriti. It has an place of 1291.4 square kilometres (319,000 acres). The place has the largest captivation of antique sites in the Americas. Scientific studies assert that the Capivara mountain range was densely populated in the pre-Columbian Era.