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Five hundred and sixty km south
of Teresina, capital of the state of Piaui, is the Serra
da Caipivara national park. Without doubt it is one of
the most astonishing places in Brasil. A place of great
natural beauty with towering formations of sandstones
and shale´s set in the arid sertao with its natural vegetation
of caatinga, it feels like the location for a western.
But the parks most important treasure is that which has
left by man. There are over five hundred different archeological
sites containing the most extensive collection of cave
paintings in the Americas. The oldest of these date back
29,000 years, though most are less than 12,000, and there
are signs of human habitation fifty thousand years ago.
It has helped to revolutionize the theories of man´s arrival
in the Americas, and in 1991, Unesco included it in the
World heritage list of archeological sites.
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