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Paradise White Sands Lencois Maranhenses
In Brazil, there is a unique place that surprises even themselves Brazilians. This National Park Lençóis Maranenses (Lencois Maranhenses), located in the northeastern part of Brazil, in the state of Maranhao, near the town of Barreyrinyas. Lencois Maranenses - amazing countryside on an area of 1000 sq. km, combining the white sand dunes of up to 40 meters and framing them clear freshwater lakes.
At first glance, the landscape of the park is like a desert, but in the rainy season (fall and here is 300 times more rainfall than the Sahara) water collects between the dunes, creating amazing beautiful landscape : a combination of a blue-green water and white sand. For its beauty Lencois Maranenses also called "sheets of Maranhao».
During the rainy season in the park Lencois Maranenses blooms life: the birds, there is a fish, shrimp and other animals. Also come to life unique mangroves up to 12 meters high, in the wilds inhabited by caimans, deer, golden hares and giant crabs.
In the crystal-clear lakes full of life than happy to use the residents of several small settlements located within the park. From December to March, during the dry season, the air temperature in these places is + 36 ° C, so that the reservoirs dry up partially disappear and many of their inhabitants, and the locals are beginning to actively engage in animal husbandry and wait for the rainy season, when the Lencois again flourish your fragile unearthly beauty
Mystery is what happens to a large livestock during drought and where there. On this account, there are different hypotheses, one of which states that the eggs of crabs and fish are stored in the sand before returning to the desired humidity.
At first glance, the landscape of the park is like a desert, but in the rainy season (fall and here is 300 times more rainfall than the Sahara) water collects between the dunes, creating amazing beautiful landscape : a combination of a blue-green water and white sand. For its beauty Lencois Maranenses also called "sheets of Maranhao».
During the rainy season in the park Lencois Maranenses blooms life: the birds, there is a fish, shrimp and other animals. Also come to life unique mangroves up to 12 meters high, in the wilds inhabited by caimans, deer, golden hares and giant crabs.
In the crystal-clear lakes full of life than happy to use the residents of several small settlements located within the park. From December to March, during the dry season, the air temperature in these places is + 36 ° C, so that the reservoirs dry up partially disappear and many of their inhabitants, and the locals are beginning to actively engage in animal husbandry and wait for the rainy season, when the Lencois again flourish your fragile unearthly beauty
Mystery is what happens to a large livestock during drought and where there. On this account, there are different hypotheses, one of which states that the eggs of crabs and fish are stored in the sand before returning to the desired humidity.
