State of Matto Grosso Region the center-west of Brazil

Lived by more than 15,000 Indians it is the state with the fifth more important native population of Brazil.

Although no longer they exist in I kill Grosso mineral deposits with the same potential that those that they attracted the Settlers that they went in century XVIII, Mato Grosso counts more on a gold production considered in 14,000 kgs. annual, standing out, with the states of For and of Rondônia, in the operation of this mineral.

In 1977, the state was divided in two, giving rise, in its South portion, to the state of I kill Grosso do Sul.

Besides the mining activity, it bases his economy in the forest activity (wood and charcoal), in the young of cattle (won of fattening) and in agriculture.

The state is furrowed by three hydrographic river basins. To the north, in the amazonian river basin, are rivers such as the Xingu, the Juruema, the Teles Pires and the Aripuanã; to the south, the platina river basin extends until the southwest of I kill Grosso through the network of the Paraguai river; finally, in the South end, in the river basin of the Tocantins the Araguaia river is born, where the beaches and the fishing are great the attractiveness.

In I kill Grosso are two of the more interesting zones of nature of Brazil: plated the two Guimarães and the Pantanal, the first form a unique scene formed by mountains of arenaceous that seem trimmed, remembering, in its forms, a city of stones, with precipices, guns and fantastic cascades; the second, the greater easily flooded region of the world, where the succession between the times of swellings and diminution of waters of the rivers gives rise to an nourishing chain without equal, colonizing the region with a especially rich and varied fauna.

Cuiabá, the State Capital of I kill Grosso is a city with abundant green zones where characteristics of a colonial past with tracks of a place are mixed that grew, was developed much in the last decades and that, with its university it has undergone an important transformation. Crossed by the Cuiabá river, the city was destiny of adventurous explorers and who in centuries XVIII and XIX.

Church of the Rosary, constructed by slaves in 1722, where the greater altar is painted of gold.

Museu de Pedras Ramis Bucair, installed in an old building where, besides a stone exhibition, it has near four thousand pieces of archeology, between which one is the femur of tiranosaurio with 120 million years and axes of stone of the neolithic time, found in the region.

To 65 km. of Cuiabá, is Plated do Guimarães, considered geodesic center of the South America, there the rivers are born that are going to form two of the majors and more important fluvial river basins of the planet: amazonian and the one of the Silver. Located to 800 M.s over the level of the sea, the Plated one owns a smooth climate, with low temperatures in winter, mainly in the months of July and August. It owns cascades of great rocky beauty and formation, covered by small forests, clean and closed fields. Place filled with mysteries, with steep and guns of great beauty with very peculiar forms, even exists what ovnipuerto�? in the highest place is considered “, the Nose of São Gerônimo.

The Pantanal de Mato Grosso, with an extension of 250,000 km2s, is the greater easily flooded area of the world. The Pantanal is an immense intercontinental river basin, delimited by the Planalto Brasileiro, to the east, by Plated the Matogrossenses, to the north, and also by a high territories and mountain range of the Andean skirt, to the west. In certain form it is a great internal delta, where the waters of the Paraguay Stop and those of a great number of rivers are accumulated that lower of the Planalto. Through Paraguay river, the Pantanal intimately is bound to the great river basin of the river Parana-river of the Silver. However, aquatic connections with amazonian affluents exist to the north of the Pantanal diffuse, especially with the Guaporé river. The drainage of this internal delta, by means of the narrow and smooth bar of Cierre of the Noses do Sul, takes control of much difficulty. Nevertheless, enormous amounts of water suspended behind this prey make of the Pantanal stopped and current, temporary or an unforseeable permanent water labyrinth. In the indigenous legend and the first maps, the Pantanal is remembered like a great lake populated with islands, the “two sea Xaraiés�?.

Cutting the Pantanal is the called earth highway the Transpantaneira, in their route are wooden bridges, and most important, has become a tourist place of privilege, since its route provides a parade of birds and mammals of matchless beauty. Constructed in years 70 to communicate the North to the South of the country, the Transpantaneira did not get to be finished, are only 145 km. the passable ones, and at the moment are used for tourist routes. During this passage it is observed with certain frequency flights of flocks of you plowed and parades of herons, capivaras, jacares, deer and many other animal.

Quentes waters, municipality where the thermal the mountain cascades, climate and waters, that vary between 32 and 42°C, this waters are recommended by different epecilistas and an ideal place to take relax and to enjoy the tourism beauty and health.