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| Destination: Ponte Alta (Jalapão) |
Jalapão has a landscape of cinema. Full of waterfalls, streams and lakes. All this punctuated by dunes of fine sand and red amid the vegetation of the cerrado. It is certainly a perfect backdrop for tourism and adventure sports like rafting, canyoning and vertical practices.
It is a place at the same time attractive and rustic, ready to be conquered. His name came from a very common habit in the region. Jalapa-do-brasil is a native plant used to cure stomach ailments. How has bitter taste, the residents often eat it with a piece of bread. Hence the juxtaposition: Jalapa-bread.
Anyway, Jalapão impressed by the magnitude: occupies about 20% of the territory of the state of Tocantins. Chapadões of sandstone, which reach ten hundred meters in height, dominate the landscape. Here, they say, the sea turned backwoods.
Although it bears the title of desert, the wildlife moves the location: wolf-guará, pampas deer, emu, giant anteater, Jaguar and other species in the region is embroiled in the cerrado vegetation typical of the sun to escape inclement, which accentuates the dry climate, with temperature always around 30 ° C. The biggest surprise of those who venture here is to note the abundance of perennial rivers, with waters still transparent and pure.
Climate
The climate is sub-humid (AW), with maximum annual temperatures between 30 degrees C and 32 C from August to November, due in part to end the drought, when the smoke of burning the native vegetation contributes to the increase the temperature, and minimum of 18 to 19 C, in the months of June and July.
Last year, two well-defined seasons: the rainy season between October and April, and dry, from May to September.
Lodging / Dining Out
There is a support structure within the park. The cities of High Bridge Groundskeeper and serve as support for the visitors. Both have hotels, restaurants, and tourism agencies and guides who take visitors on tours.
Getting there
Road - BR-153: Traffic heavy trucks. From Strait, on the border of Tocantins until Wanderlândia of Araguaina to Nova Olinda and President Kennedy Guaraí until the runway is precarious. The TO-255, up from Porto Nacional de Tocantins High Bridge has new asphalt. After this point there are baby stretches of sand, rocks and holes pointed, ideal for 4X4. Attractions
Cave Suçuapara
Sliver of 60m long and 1.5m high by open water in sandstone rock, forming Canyon with a small waterfall. In the cliffs hundreds of growing mosses and ferns. Groundskeeper for road, 15 km.
Old Waterfall
Two falls in the shape of a horseshoe with a height of 25m and 100m wide. Even on the dry Dumps large volume of water in New River. Triagro road to the farm, 101 km.
Cachoeira do Horam
Succession of steps by which the water passes to form a drop of 10m and a natural pool. We must descend a staircase of stones, some slippery. Road to the Chiquinho Farm, 45 km.
Balanga Waterfall of the bed
Stay in the middle of the plain, in a hole. Road to the Chiquinho Farm, 50 km.
Dunes
With panoramic view. Formation of huge banks of sand orange with up to 40m in an Chapadão of 800m in height in Sierra of the Holy Spirit. It is the result of erosion of rocks of sandstone. Groundskeeper for road, 136 km.
Fervedouro
Small well of crystal clear water and warm, surrounded by banana trees, with white sandy bottom, which form a natural pool of 8m in diameter. You are on an aquifer that when launching the water, air bubbles form in the sand preventing the bather sink. Road to S. Felix's Jalapão, 192 km.
Cascade of Rio Formiga
Small drop in river water and crystal blue. Road to S. Felix's Jalapão, 199 km.
Morro da Pedra Furada
Opening in the rock, cut by erosion and wind action. Road to Pindorama of Tocantins, 31 km.
Adventure Tourism
Rafting the New River. Shortly exploited, it has small waterfalls and pools. Groundskeeper for road, 120 km.
Fauna
The animals are observed more ounces, deer, capybaras, foxes, monkeys and other small mammals. Apart from common species of fauna of the cerrado, several copies in extinction are found in the Jalapão, the specific case of the wolf-guará, pumas, deer and tapir campeiro. The birds species as regional account macaw, parrot, toucan, emu, seriema, I-want. Among the reptiles are listed anaconda, boa, rattlesnake, chameleon, Blue Tegu and many others.
Crafts Mumbuca
Group of 22 families of descendants of slaves, the matriarchal tradition, the living mumbucas to manufacture hats, baskets, plates, glasses and slippers with gold-grass, fiber that only exists there, and the straw of the palm of buriti locked. The pieces are for sale on the road for S. Felix's Jalapão, 197 km. |
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