Aparados da Serra National Park

One hundred and eighty six kilometres from Porto Alegre, near the frontier with the state of Santa Catarina, in the mountainous region known as Campos de Cima da Serra is Cambará do Sul, a district that includes the Itaimbezinho canyon set in the Aparados da Serra National Park. In this freak of nature, the mountains are separated from each other by almost two hundred and fifty kilometres of vertical walls that are seven hundred and twenty metres deep and with a breadth varying between one hundred and two thousand metres. Looking out from the Itaimbezinho canyon on a sunny day it is possible to see the Torres sea and the beach to the north of the state where the craggy cliffs, caverns and enormous boulders make it one of the most attractive landscapes in the southern region.