Brazil Eco Adventure Tours
Rainforest - Hiking & Biking - Wildlife

tertiary sedimentary limestone plateaus with tabular hills intersected by river and stream valleys and quarternary mobile sediments and sands including paleodunes separated from the limestone plateaus by white or reddish cliffs.

The region exposes a variety of different ecosystems and conservation units of the Atlantic Rainforest / (Mata Atlântica) biome such as lowland, alluvial and submontane tropical rainforest at Monte Pascoal, the Discovery Coast in general, Ecoparque de Una or the coastal strip of Itacaré - Serra Grande, mangrove forests at peninsula Maraú and the Bay of Camamu and restinga vegetation on the islands of Tinharé & Boipeba. The site belongs to the world's richest in terms of biodiversity. According to a study realized by the Botanical Garden of New York at Serra do Conduru State Park in 1993, more than 450 tree species per hecatare (100 x 100m) have been recorded.

In addition to its biological richness the area comprises a series of cultural features, which represent outstanding examples of first European occupation of the New World and a unique testimony of this period in modern history. Some of the most outstanding features are the historic centres of Salvador, Porto Seguro, Trancoso, Ilhéus, Itacaré, Camamu, Cairu and Morro de São Paulo. The ruins of Brazil's first church lay at the top of a cliff to the north of Porto Seguro. An old Tupi civilisation town has recently been unearthed. A population of Pataxó people, who are survivors from the different indigenous cultures that lived in the region can be found in settlements such as Barra Velha or Coroa Vermelha.