The National Park of Lençóis Maranhenses:

About the Park.

   Nothing comparable to the fascinating Lençóis Maranhenses does not exist. The Center Park of Lençóis, situated in the eastern coast of the Maranhão, involves the cities of Humberto De Campos, Primeira Cruz, Santo Amaro and Barreirinhas, this last one being the main gate of entrance for this fantastic natural beauty.

   Its attractive greater is the National Park of the Lençóis Maranhenses, to the edges of the River Preguiças, in the Maranhão. They are 155 a thousand hectares of flaring, full dune landscape high with up to 40 meters of height and water lagoons candy, whose waters vary between the tones of green and blue.

   The Lençóis Maranhenses resemble a great desert, if it did not rain here 300 times more of the one than in the African Saara. They are these waters that, imprisoned between dunes, form true tropical oases, obligator stops for who walks in dunes. Some lagoons can have fishes.

   The pluvial waters form lagoons that if spread in practically all the area of the park forming a inigualável landscape, being rare a formed geologic phenomenon throughout thousand of years through the action of the nature.

   The known lagoons more are the calls Blue Lagoon and Pretty Lagoon, celebrities for its lovely and conditions of bath.