Parque Nacional dos Lençóis Maranhenses - Maranhão

To rain very in all the coast of Maranhão is guarantee of that the spectacular cycle of the nature will be renewed in the National Park of the Maranhenses Sheets, that occupies almost all the part occidental person of the coast of the State, since the Golfão Maranhense until the estuary of the river Preguiças.

After rains, the lagoons will be full and crystalline transforming the only Brazilian desert into a great natural oasis. E the period of the reproduction of the species and is when the beauty of "Lençois" if becomes more flaring.

Understand this beauty she is necessary to be there. It is not easy definit it. The sand dunes white that they move of form, height and place, involved for the wind that blows of the sea, seem "immense sheets abandoned for the bed". Between the dunes, that if extend for an area of 155 a thousand hectares, it enters the cities of Barreirinhas and Primeira Cruz, countless green and blue lagoons make of Lençois the proper image of the terrestrial paradise. During it dries, the majority of the lagoons is evaporated.

It is given credit that the wind brings the sand of the deep one of the sea and makes to advance dunes inside continent, until 50km of the coast. It has who defends that all the region, at remote times, was a great tropical forest. Certain exactly it is that the Lençois Maranhense are not fit in the classic definition of desert - in the region it more rains 300 times than in the Saara - and airs apparent basic paper in the reproduction of the species. During good part of the year the lagoons are rich in fish and shrimps, that migram for the rivers and lakes when the waters dry.

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