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
Forest of the Tijuca National Park of Rio de Janeiro
More than 150 years ago, began one of the first large-scale reforestations in the world. Over thirteen years, more than 220 thousand typical seedlings of the Atlantic Forest were planted in what is now the forest of the Tijuca National Park of Rio de Janeiro, in fact one of the largest, most beautiful and most visited urban forests in the world. In its enclave of 3,953 hectares in the middle of the city, the Tijuca forest is home to the famous Corcovado dominated by the statue of Christ the Redeemer. In
The Pedra Branca State Park is an environmental protection unit in the western part of the municipality of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. It is recognized as one of the largest urban forests in the world and the largest in Brazil. With an area of ??12,500 hectares, it covers all areas over 100 m high in the Massif da Pedra Branca and occupies land in 17 different districts of Rio de Janeiro, which make up about 10% of the urban area. The highest point of the park, the 1,025 meter high Pico da Pedra Branca, is also the highest point
