(Rupicola rupicola) – Brazilian States of Amazonas, Pará and Roraima
The Cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola rupicola) lives in rugged forests interspersed with small mountain streams in the far north of Brazil, in the states of Amazonas, Pará and Roraima. It is a large bird, up to 28 cm long with pronounced sexual dimorphism: males have lush orange plumage and a prominent crescent-shaped crest, which covers the beak, while females have only a dark brown plumage with an inconspicuous crest.
The mating ritual is spectacular. At the time of reproduction, the males gather on the ground to court the
The El Dorado waterfall, on the Aracá River, the largest waterfall in Brazil, plunges 353 meters high into the middle of the Amazon mountains. It is located in the Serra do Aracá State Park, 211 km in a straight line from Barcelos, seat of the municipality, in the far north of the state of Amazonas (northern region of Brazil) on the border with Venezuela and the Brazilian state of Roraima. The Serra do Aracá State Park, created in 1990, occupies an area of ??1,818,700 ha (18,187 km²), i.e 15% of the area of ??the municipality of Barcelos (the
Mount Roraima, located on the triple border between Brazil, Venezuela and Guyana, is a tepui, a plateau-shaped mountain delimited by cliffs that form impregnable vertical rock faces about 1,000 meters high. Mount Roraima, discovered by Europeans in 1595 during the Spanish and British colonization of this part of South America, remained unexplored until the end of the 19th century. The "crystal mountain" from which many waterfalls sprang was considered impossible to climb and was the subject of many legends and stories, notably serving the imagination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for his 1912 book "The Lost World" ,
