Monte Pascoal

Monte Pascoal is a nature park and Indian reservation in the State of Bahia ( Brazil).

The Monte Pascoal National Park was established in 1943 to protect the typical for the landscape rounded ridge, which were then seen as the first highly visible elevations of the Portuguese conquerors under the command of Pedro Álvares Cabral on April 22, 1500 by sea. With 536 meters in height, Monte Pascoal stands out from the coastal plain.

Importance

The park is one of the most important protected areas in the Atlantic Forest in the south of Bahia and holds 22,500 hectares. In this ecosystem, there is a wide variety of over 10,000 plant species in addition to hundreds of species of mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles. Large forest trees such as jatobá and rosewood predominate. In the park there are salt marshes, mangrove forests and territories which as a transitional ecosystems between the coast and the rainforest are used.

The coast of Südbahia was inhabited long before the arrival of the Portuguese conquerors of indigenous peoples. A capital was already Situated on a river estuary town of Porto Seguro. About 62 km of coastal stretch from here to the south is now the Indian reservation of the Monte Pascoal. Monte Pascoal because the Portuguese discovered this mountain at Easter when they arrived in Brazil on 22 April 1500. Around the Monte Pascoal now covers a protected natural park with now of rare vegetation of the Atlantic coastal forest.

The Indians living there of Pataxó offer arriving guests even on manufactured artifacts.