Serra da Capivara National Park
Serra da Capivara National Park is a national park in the Northeastern region of Brazil. The area has many prehistoric paintings.
Serra da Capivara National Park
Pedra Furada
Image: Serra da Capivara Painting 7
Image: Serra da Capivara Painting 8
The Northeast Region of Brazil is one of the five official and political regions of the country according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. Of Brazil's twenty-six states, it comprises nine: Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia, along with the Fernando de Noronha archipelago.
View of a sugar-producing farm (engenho) in colonial Pernambuco by Dutch painter Frans Post (17th century).
The Historic centre of Salvador, Bahia, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985.
Recife is the largest metropolitan area of the Northeast Region, and the third largest city of the region.
Coconut trees in Pernambuco