Lençóis is the main city of Bahia´s region known as Chapada Diamantina, in Brazil, where there is a famous national park with the same name. Lençois stands out for its colonial architecture, engraved in splendid natural forests, waterfalls, lakes and landscapes. It is protected by the Ministry of Culture´s Institute for the National Historical and Artistic Inheritance, a federal agency. When diamonds where discovered in XIX century, the ancient village suffered a prospectors' invasion (1845), originated mainly from several other mining towns in Minas Gerais state. Old legends say that the miners camped in the top of the mountain where the city is today, covering their tents with white cloths after some heavy tropical rains. From far away, they seemed spread out sheets - from that scene came the name Lençóis, meaning Sheets. It declined from 1871 on, with the discovery of diamonds in South Africa. In 1880 it retook partially the activities with the increase in value of the carbonized diamond, widely used in the European industries of that time. Lençóis today is an important tourist center, with a good infrastructure, including international airport, paved roads to everywhere in Brazil and many hotels and lodgings, ecotourism agencies and some English speaking people.