9 legends, 2 gem & mineral ground on the free Club 49 adventure map
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Brazilian Minas Gerais gemsGem & mineral ground The greatest gem province on Earth. Minas Gerais (“general mines”) in Brazil produces more gem species in quantity than anywhere: the neon Paraiba tourmaline, giant aquamarine and morganite crystals, imperial topaz, emerald,... Open it on the map
Chapada DiamantinaLegend A plateau in the middle of Bahia walled by cliffs, named for the diamonds found in the Sincorá range in the middle of the nineteenth century; gold came out of the same ground. The national park was created by decree on 17... Open it on the map · Read the story
Chapada dos VeadeirosLegend A quartz plateau in Goiás estimated at 1.8 billion years old, which puts it among the oldest exposed rock on the planet, and people come here as much for that as for the waterfalls. The crystal is at the surface in places, in... Open it on the map · Read the story
El Dorado’s cousin: the Lost City of ZLegend In 1925 the British explorer Percy Fawcett walked into the Mato Grosso of Brazil hunting a lost stone city he called “Z” and was never seen again, along with his son and a friend, one of the great disappearances of the age. For... Open it on the map · Read the story
Fernando de NoronhaLegend Twenty-one volcanic islands and islets 354 km off the Brazilian coast, the main one only 18.4 square kilometres, with about 3,167 people on it. Seventy percent of the area became a marine national park in 1988 and UNESCO listed... Open it on the map · Read the story
Lençóis MaranhensesLegend It looks like the Sahara with swimming pools in it and it is not a desert at all. Some 155,000 hectares of white dunes behind 70 km of Atlantic coast, and from January to June the rains fill the valleys between the dunes with... Open it on the map · Read the story
Ouro Preto, imperial topazGem & mineral ground The old gold-rush city of Ouro Preto (“black gold”) in Minas Gerais, Brazil, sits in the only place on Earth that produces imperial topaz, the sherry-to-pink stone found nowhere else, and Minas Gerais is one of the greatest gem... Open it on the map
Serra PeladaLegend The largest hand-dug gold mine the world has seen, and it started with a cowboy finding colour in a stream in December 1979. In January 1980 a child picked up a six-gram nugget and within a week thousands of people were on the... Open it on the map · Read the story
Serra da CapivaraLegend The largest and oldest concentration of prehistoric sites in the Americas, 1,291 square kilometres of canyon country in Piauí holding hundreds of painted rock shelters. It is also the middle of the biggest argument in New World... Open it on the map · Read the story
Snake Island, Ilha da Queimada GrandeLegend 43 hectares of forested rock 33 km off the São Paulo coast, holding an estimated 2,000 to 4,000 golden lanceheads and nothing like them anywhere else on Earth. The island was cut off by rising sea level and the snakes were left... Open it on the map · Read the story
The PantanalLegend The largest tropical wetland on Earth, between 140,000 and 195,000 square kilometres of it, about 80 percent in Mato Grosso do Sul and the rest reaching into Bolivia and Paraguay. It works on a flood cycle: from November to March... Open it on the map · Read the story
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