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Serra da Capivara National Park

Brazil
Date of Inscription: 1991
Criteria: (iii)
Sud-est de Etat du Piaui – Communes de Sao Raimundo Nonato, Sao Joao do Piaui et Canto do Butriti
S8 25 W42 20
Ref: 606

Brief Description

Many of the numerous rock shelters in the Serra da Capivara National Park are decorated with cave paintings, some more than 25,000 years old. They are an outstanding testimony to one of the oldest human communities of South America.