Serra do Cipó

If we are to believe the botanists, the 1,600 catalogued plant species do not even represent half of the existing species in this area. The mosaic of flora is so diverse that the entire region is in constant bloom – an open-air laboratory and a paradise for botanists at any time of year.
The Serra is located at the southern end of the Serra do Espinhaço (Backbone Mountain), a chain of mountains and plateaus averaging 1,300 meters (highest peak: 2,033 meters), which, at a width of 50 to 100 kms, crosses Brazil for 1,000 kilometers from Minas Gerais to Bahia. Its special highland vegetation, the "campo rupestre", is assigned to the Atlantic forest, which originally stretched all the way from the east to the Atlantic Ocean. Today, only a marginal 1% of the Atlantic rainforest has been spared destruction. 

The Serra do Espinhaço, as the boundary between two biomes, has an extremely abundant and rare biodiversivity and is an area of headwaters of unspoilt natural beauty. Despite the threat to biodiversity and the key role the area plays in supplying drinking water to millions of people, only a small percentage is, in the actual sense, "protected". This area is predominantly threatened by human activities or has already undergone degeneration.
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t is at this interface that the project in Altamira wants to both remind and exhort, to be a patron, a champion, a proponent, an opinion leader – for the benefit of the endangered treasures and regions of the world.

The project "Altamira" can be reached in 2 hours by car from Belo Horizonte, where there are direct flights from Europe.