The obelisk marks the pre­cise cen­ter of the con­ti­nent, as cal­cu­lat­ed by leg­endary Brazil­ian explor­er Can­di­do Ron­don. …

It is locat­ed very low from sea lev­el, cov­ered with char­ac­ter­is­tic large sand dunes up to 40 meters high. Dur­ing the …

Area: 114,52 sq. km., vol­ume: 2400 cubic meters, depth avg: 21 m, shore length: 327,37 m, res time: 332,10001, ele­vat…

Par­que Das Mangabeiras is an urban park in Belo Hor­i­zonte, Brazil. It is locat­ed in the Ser­ra do Cur­ral, in the south…

It has a height of 396 meters and is one of the main attrac­tions of the city. The name of the moun­tain comes from its…

There is a repli­ca of the ancient Ukrain­ian Church of St. Michael, locat­ed in the city of Mal­let, Paraná, as well as …

The site con­sists of an excep­tion­al urban set­ting encom­pass­ing the key nat­ur­al ele­ments that have shaped and inspired…

Found­ed at the end of the 17th cen­tu­ry, Ouro Pre­to (Black Gold) was the focal point of the gold rush and Brazil‘s gol…

Found­ed in the 16th cen­tu­ry by the Por­tuguese, the town‘s his­to­ry is linked to the sug­ar-cane indus­try. Rebuilt after…

Goias tes­ti­fies to the occu­pa­tion and col­o­niza­tion of the lands of cen­tral Brazil in the 18th and 19th cen­turies. The…

Dia­man­ti­na, a colo­nial vil­lage set like a jew­el in a neck­lace of inhos­pitable rocky moun­tains, recalls the exploits o…

Orig­i­nal­ly known as ”Cam­po dos Afon­sos” air­field, the cra­dle of Brazil­ian mil­i­tary avi­a­tion and site of the first a…

Area: 2,96 sq. km., vol­ume: 504 cubic meters, depth avg: 170,3 m, shore length: 27,6 m, res time: 235, ele­va­tion: 416

Sao Fran­cis­co Square, in the town of Sao Cristo­vao, is a quadri­lat­er­al open space sur­round­ed by sub­stan­tial ear­ly bui…

The Dis­cov­ery Coast Atlantic For­est Reserves, in the states of Bahia and Espir­i­to San­to, con­sist of eight sep­a­rate pr…

As the first cap­i­tal of Brazil, from 1549 to 1763, Sal­vador de Bahia wit­nessed the blend­ing of Euro­pean, African and …

Many of the numer­ous rock shel­ters in the Ser­ra da Capi­vara Nation­al Park are dec­o­rat­ed with cave paint­ings, some mor…

The late 17th-cen­tu­ry core of this his­toric town, found­ed by the French and occu­pied by the Dutch before com­ing under…

The Pan­tanal Con­ser­va­tion Area con­sists of a clus­ter of four pro­tect­ed areas with a total area of 187,818 ha. Locat­ed…

Coastal Rio enjoys one of the world’s most pho­to­genic loca­tions for a major metrop­o­lis. With its high ris­es and homes…

Just under the giant Jesus (Cristo Reden­tor) at the foot of the Cor­co­v­a­do moun­tain, you’ll find this UNESCO her­itage …

Lencois Maran­hens­es Nation­al Park is one of the mys­te­ri­ous places on Earth which is a pro­tect­ed area in Brazil. There…

About an hour off the coast of Brazil, the Fer­nan­do de Noron­ha island offers a beach expe­ri­ence like no oth­er in Braz…

Tai­pus de Fora is not much of a secret any­more, as the influx of tourists has led to major devel­op­ment of the area. T…

For 13 years, until his death in 2013, Chilean-born artist Jorge Selarón cov­ered the long stair­way that formed the st…

Beyond the beach­es of Copaca­bana, the glo­ri­ous white sands merge into the just-as-famous beach­es of Ipane­ma. The same…