Located in Itatiaia National Park, a pioneer region when it comes to outdoor sports in Brazil. The first permanent conservation unit in the country, created in 1937, Itatiaia brings together some of the highest points of the Serra da Mantiqueira, right on the border between Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais. It concentrates three of the ten highest mountains in Brazil and, because of that, it is a kind of playground for climbers and lovers of hiking.
The scenario is unusual, it looks like almost nothing we have in Brazil. Fields of tall, dry bush, interspersed with rocks of varying sizes
The name of the massif is attributed to the white colored limestone formation, which is present on the site, hence the name 'Pedra Branca'. The Park covers a large set of hills and rocky shores that form the various mountain ranges of the massif, which provide unique and majestic landscapes in each region surrounding the park itself.
Its geographical location, together with its geomorphological characteristics, provide visitors with several privileged vantage points in the city, it also houses numerous springs, rivers and streams that run through the land, forming unique landscapes with wells and waterfalls.
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Cachoeiras de Macacu is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro, located 97 km from the state capital. It has its name from the dozens of waterfalls of extraordinary beauty of the municipality, such as the Tenebroso, Sete Quedas, Barba, Samambaia, Chapadão and Furna da Onça. Recently the municipality has become an attraction for trekking, mountaineering, rappel and other forms of extreme sports and ecotourism, and part of its territory is located in the limits of the Três Picos State Park, with its imposing set of granite mountains that rise to 2,366 meters above sea level forming
