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 September 1985 and covers 152,142 hectares of a plateau region running to 41,751 square kilometres, mostly 500 to 1,000 metres up with peaks at 1,600 to 1,800, and Pico do Barbado at 2,036 metres is the highest point in the whole state. The rivers have cut cave systems all through it. The vegetation is caatinga, dry and thorny, with Atlantic Forest surviving in the wetter pockets, and it holds orchids and the hooded visorbearer hummingbird that grow nowhere else, plus jaguar, cougar and giant anteater.
Bahia, Brazil
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