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	National park -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		A national park is a reserve of land, usually owned by a national (The organization that is the governing authority of a political unit) government, that is protected from most (Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae) human development and pollution.
		However, the vision of the National Park was not yet complete in Yosemite, and required the efforts of (United States naturalist (born in England) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838-1914)) John Muir to bring it to fruition.
		In 1872, (The first national park in the United States; located in the border area between Wyoming and Montana and Idaho; spectacular wilderness; famous for Old Faithful geyser and for buffalo and bears) Yellowstone National Park was established as the world's first truly national park.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/na/national_park.htm

	chapada diamantina / lençois
		Chapada Diamantina National Park is one of the natural wonders of the state of Bahia.
		The national park is spread over 1,500 km sq (932 sq miles) and is dominated by bizarre geological structures in a mountainous landscape, containing hundreds of waterfalls, large caves with impressive stalagmite and stalactite formations, rivers with natural swimming pools and an abundance of magnificent flora.
		The principal entrance to the Chapada Diamantina is the picturesque little town of Lençóis. This city was founded in the 18th century, when the first diamonds where discovered in the area.
	www.jacaretravel.com /chapada-diamantina.htm

	Brazil Tourism Office
		Chapada Diamantina, the surrounding 152,000 hectare national park, and the gateway city Lençóis, welcome you with rare natural spectacles and nostalgic charm.
		Chapada Diamantina is perhaps one of the most well known natural monuments among Brazilians.
		Chapada Diamantina earns its place on the list of ecotourism musts in Brazil, as it holds numerous natural records and monuments.
	www.braziltourism.org /14greendest6.shtml

	BrazilAdventures
		Chapada Diamantina is one of the most beautiful National Parks in South America.
		Today's destination is Remanso, an old small village known as the "Pantanal of Chapada Diamantina" because of its wetlands and wildlife.
		Today's trekking includes the newest discovery of Chapada Diamantina, a 330 feet (100 meters) waterfall with incredible walls.
	www.brazil-adventures.com /?x=find&goster=1&tid=7

	Karst Areas of Brazil: Chapada Diamantina
		This diamond rush is the reason why this area is called Chapada Diamantina.
		Visitors to the park typically start at Lençois, a small village which was founded during the diamond rush after 1844.
		For speleologists the sandstone and quartzite karst is the most famous feature of the park.
	www.showcaves.com /english/br/region/ChapadaDiamantina.html

	Geological and Paleontological Sites of Brazil - Site 072 - PAI INÁCIO HILL
		The region is located within the limits of the Chapada Diamantina National Park and the Marimbus-Iraquara Environmental Protection Area, and is classified as "rigorous protection area".
		Geologically the area is in the domain of the terrigenous meta-sediments of the Chapada Diamantina Syneclisis and is characterized by gentle folds with north-south trending axes.
		In this fold, whose axis trends north-south, is exposed the contact between the Paraguaçu and Chapada Diamantina groups: the former consists of fine grained sandstones, siltstones and argillites and the latter, represented by the Tombador Formation, is formed by sandstones and occasionally diamond bearing conglomerates.
	www.unb.br /ig/sigep/sitio072/sitio072english.htm

	Parque Nacional Chapada Diamantina
		The National Park of Chapada Diamantina was established in 1985 and it is currently undergoing the implementation process, administered by the Ibama (Environmental Institute of Brazil- Instituto Brasileriro de Meio Ambiente), headquartered in Palmeiras.
		The cities that border the National park are filled with colonial buildings representing the architecture of the time, a vivid memory of the richness of the time of the diamonds, which made Brazil the first world producer of the mineral during the beginnings of the XX century.
		The underground of the Chapada is as fascinating as the surface.
	www.gd.com.br /candomba/english/parquenacional.htm

	Chapada Diamantina Ingles
		hapada Diamantina National Park was proclaimed in 1985 and nowadays Ibama is improving it.
		he indian people arrived in the region before 1750, when they arrived in Chapada Diamantina they found many compact portion of quartz, which support the erosion forming inorganics towers called "tepuy", we can find tepuy in Palmeiras, Lençois and Mucuge the tepuy altitude is usually 1450 meters.
		A lot of wild animals can be encountered living in Chapada region such as wild cats, lizzards, chameleon, deers.
	www.prdoforte.com.br /ingles/Chapada_ing.htm

	Brazil Tourism Office
		Chapada Diamantina National Park covers a vibrant cave diving cluster deep in the middle of the dry back lands of Bahia—250 miles inland from Salvador.
		On top of it, figuratively and literally, the towering tabletop mesas of the plateau have had some of the world’s best cave system explorers calling out “Jurassic Park!” Some have also called the park “the Brazilian Grand Canyon,” but Chapada Diamantina is a bit greener than that.
		The professional dive specialist for Chapada Diamantina is Pablo Koss.
	www.braziltourism.org /diving_chapada.shtml

	::: Secretaria da Cultura e Turismo da Bahia :::
		Just to the west and south of Lençóis is the Parque Nacional Chapada Diamantina (national park) that extends through parts of four other municipalities, having a total area of 152,000 hectares (375,552 acres).
		Besides having exotic flora, the park is inhabited by plenty of wildlife, such as quati (coati, related to the raccoon), cutia (agouti, a rodent the size of a rabbit), suçuarana (puma), veado (deer), onça-pintada (jaguar), araras (macaws), and curiós (finches).
		The best bet for a one-day walk in the park is to see its most spectacular site: the highest waterfall in Brazil—Cachoeira Glass—a small stream that tumbles 400 meters (1,312 feet) down over a mesa, becoming nothing more than a fine mist before it reaches the bottom.
	www.sct.ba.gov.br /cyber/10_en.asp

	CPD: South America, Site SA20, Espinhaço Range Region, Brazil
		Chapada Diamantina National Park (Bahia), created in 1985, comprises 1520 km² already delimited; it is still in the initial phase of organization.
		In Bahia on the Chapada Diamantina, the population was large for the same reasons, with the mines principally from Rio de Contas to Catolés in the west and Mucugê to Lençóis in the east, with the road at that time extending northward to Jacobina.
		In the State of Bahia 1100 km to the north (inland from Salvador), the Chapada Diamantina is an extensive elevated area which includes a number of important centres, such as in the west the Serra do Rio de Contas, Pico das Almas and Pico de Itabira and in the east the Serra do Sincorá.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa20.htm

	About Family Travel - Brazil!
		Parks include the Parque de Ibirapuera (planetarium) and Parque de Ipiranga (the tomb of Dom Pedro I, the nation's first emperor, is in the park).
		This park in southern Brazil has a beautiful crater lake and odd rock formations (some are 650 ft/200 m long and 1,970 ft/600 m wide) that-with the help of your imagination and a guide-appear to be carved in the shapes of people, animals and objects.
		The park encompasses waterfalls, alpine meadows and lowland jungle.
	www.about-family-travel.com /travel/brazil_sights.htm

	::: Bahia 4x4 ::: Adventure Tourism in Lencois, Chapada Diamantina :::
		400 km away from Salvador city, Chapada Diamantina enchants visitors with its wonderful landscapes and provides a great variety of possibilities to practice adventure sports.
		The park was created in 1885 to protect the area of almost 200 years of diamonds and gold extraction.
		Lots of rivers, canyons, cascades, valleys and caverns make of this place an amazing ecosystem that can not be compared to anything already known.
	www.bahia4x4.com /en_lencois.htm

	Birdwatching Trip Report from North-east Brazil
		Chapada Diamantina — 1 bird at the trail near the B242, north of Lencois.
		Chapada Diamantina — 3 birds at the trail near the B242, north of Lencois.
		Chapada Diamantina (where I saw it) holds the bulk of the population.
	www.birdtours.co.uk /tripreports/brazil/braz12/ne-braz-ap-04.htm

	Chapada Diamantina
		The Chapada Diamantina National Park is surrounded by historic mining towns such as Andaraí, Lençóis, Palmeiras, Mucugê, and Igatu.
		The most famous waterfall in the park is Cachoeira de Fumaça (Waterfall of Smoke), so called because the thin stream of water slipping over the 335m (1,100-foot) precipice fades into a thick, fine mist before it ever reaches the ground.
		The Chapada is als home to the famous Glass Fall also known as Cachoeira da Fumaca (smoke Waterfall) whose free-falling water drops more than 415 meteres in to fascinating Poco Encantado (Enchanted Well).
	www.carnaval.com /bahia/diamond

	Trails on Vale do Capão
		The federal organization that takes care of the National Parks and the environment in general in Brazil, IBAMA, passed an ACT requiring all tourists in the National Park of Chapada Diamantina to only go to the trail with a local guide.
		We are located in the middle of the National Park, 100 KM (about 70 miles)
		Full of rivers, mountains, plants and everything else Chapada has to offer in just one place.
	www.penomato.com.br /english/trails.htm

	Chapada Diamantina National Park
		T he Chapada Diamantina National Park is a fine example of a savanna ecosystem.
		The name Chapada da Diamantina means rocky plateau and refers to the rocky formations in the highlands where diamonds were mined in the early 1800s.
		Situated in the State of Bahia near the Brazilian coastline, the park is a region of high plains surrounded by mountains.
	www.llbean.com /parksearch/parks/html/1887llt.htm

	SINCORÁ RANGE
		The northern half of the Sincorá range is within the Chapada Diamantina National Park and farther north is the Iraquara-Marimbus Environmental Protection Area; in the region of the town of Mucugê, there is a municipal park of environmental protection, in the area of the Sempre Viva Project.
		The Sincorá range is located in the central-eastern escarpment of the Chapada Diamantina, approximately between the villages of Afrânio Peixoto (previously Estiva) in the north and Sincorá Velho in the south (figure 1).
		This park also encompasses the low course of the Combucas river and several of its tributaries, and borders the National Park.
	www.unb.br /ig/sigep/sitio085/sitio085english.htm

	SummitPost.org - Chapada Diamantina Climbing Information
		The Chapada Diamantina National Park encircles Sincorá Range, with altitude of 400mts to 1420mts.
		The National Park haven't structure and the tourists should to go to the little base towns to camp or stay in resting places at Lençóis.
		From Salvador, take the BR-242 route to West to Lençóis. Over there, are more 10 km to National Park.
	www.summitpost.org /show/mountain_link.pl/mountain_id/4253

	Giacometti Kids - National Parks
		The 40 Brazilian National Parks were created to preserve the fauna and flora of the country and protect its natural beauty.
		These areas can be used for recreation, education and scientific research and no form of natural resource exploitation is allowed within the park boundaries.
		The information about the parks is in Portuguese.
	www.giacometti.org.br /kids/htm/e_parques.htm

	Gordon's Hiking Brazil Page
		This hill is the symbol of the Chapada Diamantina region.
		Located in central Bahia state, about 6 hours by bus from the colonial city of Salvador-da-Bahia, the state capital and colonial capital of Brazil, Chapada Diamantina is a serene, sparsely populated region dominated by semi-arid scrub in the lowlands and tropical forest in the highlands.
		This mountain area is the national park of Tijuca.
	www.webbnet.com /users/gordonye/braz_en.html

	Chapada Diamantina, Brazil - travelbrazil.net - Tours in Brazil and South American tours including, Tickets, Tours, Amazon and Pantanal Ecotourism, Adventure Tourism, Hotels, Carnival
		One of the main ecotouristic destinations in Brazil, the National Park of Chapada Diamantina has incredible natural formations and a lot to offer to the adventure and nature lovers.
		Apart from the dramatic natural formations, Chapada Diamantina has many rivers, waterfalls, natural pools, grottoes with cristal clear waters and valleys with canyons.
		Chapada Diamantina, Brazil- travelbrazil.net - Tours in Brazil and South American tours including, Tickets, Tours, Amazon and Pantanal Ecotourism, Adventure Tourism, Hotels, Carnival
	www.brasiltravel.com /International/Info/Chapadadiamantinai.html

	Chapada Diamantina Brazil
		Chapada Diamantina enables the choice of walking among caves, many waterfalls, natural chutes, mountains with stunning views, valleys and ravines.
		The Chapada Diamantina part was the best and my wife agreed that we should return for another ecological vacation.
		From there you have some of the most spectacular views of Chapada, with a series of flat mountains that are so characteristic of this landscape.
	www.amazonadventures.com /diamantina.htm

	List of national parks of Brazil. Who is List of national parks of Brazil? What is List of national parks of Brazil? Where is List of national parks of Brazil? Definition of List of national parks of Brazil. Meaning of List of national parks of Brazil.
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		Definition of List of national parks of Brazil.
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	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/List_of_national_parks_of_Brazil

	Brazil Accommodation and Adventure Vacations - The Region
		When the Chapada Diamantina was formed and this layer of conglomerate stone was elevated the forces of erosion released the trapped diamonds which came to rest in the riverbeds.
		The park is made up of 1520 sq km of the Sincora range of the Diamantina plateau, in a rectangle formed by the cities of Lençóis and Mucugê, Palmeiras and Andaraí.
		LENÇÓIS Lençóis, a small colonial town which lies in the gorgeous, wooded mountain region of the Chapada Diamantina, is steeped in the history of the ‘garimpeiros’ (prospectors) who came to the area looking for diamonds after they were first discovered in the Rio Mucugê in 1844.
	www.pousadadosduendes.com /theregion.htm

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Diamantina
		Diamantina, intermittent river, Queensland and South Australia, central eastern Australia.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Diamantina.html

	Diamantinai Trip - Hiking in the Chapada Diamantina, Brazil
		Diamantina - Trekking in the Clouds - Brazil
		The park comprises incredible table-top mountains, the second highest waterfall in Brazil, vast caves and crystal clear streams.
		Diamantina Adventure Trip - Trekking in the North East of Brazil.
	www.journeylatinamerica.co.uk /adventure/itins/short_of_time/diamantina.shtml

	Summit - Chapada Diamantina
		created in 1985, the chapada diamantina national park is a mountain area towering at more than 600 m above sea level located within the central region of the state of bahia.
		colonial architecture of the city of lençóis at the heart of the chapada
		the mind boggling caves of diamantina, inside the torrinha cave
	summitbrazil.tripod.com /diamantina.html

	African Slaves' Plant Knowledge Vanishing in Brazil
		Voeks has focused his research on an Afro-Brazilian community on the outskirts of the Chapada Diamantina (Diamond Highlands) National Park, which lies about 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) north of Rio de Janeiro.
		With the support of the National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration, Voeks is studying the Afro-Brazilians' relationship with the South American plant world and documenting how quickly this way of life is disappearing.
		While all dues support National Geographic's mission of expanding geographic knowledge, 90 percent is designated for the magazine subscription, and no portion should be considered a charitable contribution.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2004/04/0406_040406_brazilethnobotany.html

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