Chapada National Park
Take a landscape of mesas, weird and fantastic rock formations above ground, a system of quartzite caves with crystal clear lakes and underground rivers, and you have a stunning area to explore. Then add in an historical diamond boom, prospectors, natural monuments and you have the 152,000 hectare Chapada National Park. Discover huge veins of diamonds in a region of unusual rock formations, tablelands, subterranean rivers, waterfalls, valleys and mountains called morros.
Now the Chapada Diamantina National Park, created in 1985, this is a region of mixed terrain: verdant slopes and red-rock mesas fed by the underground water system, waterfalls and pools contrasting with the nearby drought-ridden semi-arid Sertão. This topography is the cake-like layers of sediment once collected on a primeval ocean floor and pushed up to be carved by wind and water into mesas, canyons and caverns.
Endemic flowers like the orchids, the humming bird, bromeliads, frogs and fish yet to be catalogued by biologists, live in this natural refuge whose topography is responsible for the creation of the sources of the main rivers in Bahia: the Paraguacu and the Cuentas, and others going towards the San Francisco basin.
Group Tours to Chapada National Park