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Municipality in Northeast, Brazil
Photo: Fernando Santos Cunha Filho, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Imperatriz is a city in western Maranhão. Second largest of its state, with some 260,000 inhabitants (2020), it provides a peek into a quite distant Brazil. Imperatriz is the starting point for ecological tourism in several places in the south and southwest of the state of Maranhão, including the cities of Carolina and Riachão and Chapada das Mesas.
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A museum of the material and immaterial culture of the southern region of Maranhão.
This 160,000-ha park is extremely rich in species of animals and plants. The waterfalls that stand out are São Romão and Cachoeira da Prata. São Romão has the largest volume of water in the region. These waterfalls are difficult to reach: doing so requires the help of local guides and 4x4 trucks. Other attractions are trekking to Morro das Figuras (with cave inscriptions) and ecological trails, such as Morro do Chapéu.
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