The Mantiqueira Province is one of the three
geotectonic provinces of the
Atlantic Shield
that surround the
São Francisco Craton
(SFC).
It describes a large region in the eastern part of the
South American Platform
that stretches about 3.000 km along Brazil's southeastern and southern coast from Southern Bahia
to the border with Uruguay.
It can be divided into a northern, central and southern segment that towards the end of the Neoproterozoic (prior to
the opening of the South Atlantic) contained the
Araçuaí (A),
Ribeira (R)
and Dom Feliciano (D) orogens
(see
geology).
RJ: Rio de Janeiro
