EcoGuides give you an overall vision on special ecological tourism areas inside Brazil, like national parks, warm waterfalls, tropical savanna (cerrados), rivers, lots of wild fauna, caves with rivers crossing underground, historical and natural hotspots, as well as archeological sites in protected areas, the Pantanal wetlands and the environment problems.The idea is to show it with lot of pictures, little movies, high-tech GPS files, simplified maps and text by professional press people, who visited the areas by ourselves.
You start navigation the way you want: just choose your EcoGuide in the left column menu - you’ll get to its ENTRY page, with some general info. You can, for instance, go on to the ITINERARY, with the towns from where most of the roads and trails begin. It takes you to the ECOPOINTS, divided into areas such as WATER (falls, rivers, lakes, springs, etc), FAUNA and FLORA (lots of pictures), landscapes and sometimes CAVES and other special features of each region, like HISTORY or ARCHEOLOGY data, indian lands and so. You can know better the region going into the legally PROTECTED LAND (national and local parks, reserves, national and extractives forests, etc). Looking at the MAPS you get sketches that orient you getting where you want to. In MAPS area you also find (in guides produced more recently) the state-of-art in traveling: the GPS files with geographic coordinates, trails, tracks, routes and waypoints with latitude, altitude and longitude for the EcoGuides. You can download these files, then use them in your Global Positioning Sistem(GPS) devices when you go traveling. It takes you where most people can’t go easily. Least but not last, the IMAGES area, with hundred of original PICTURES of nature and a few 15 seconds internet MOVIES in mpeg format. Looking at TIPS you’re supposed to find useful information for travelers, such as Tourist Reception Offices, Municipalities services, phone numbers, sites, some hotels (and lots of "pousadas", like small inn places) and a few other key-data for people call or email before go there. They´re organized by the same town names listed in ITINERARY. All connected thru the menus - the main one, at your left and a few horizontal ones. In some EcoGuides there is an AVALIATION that leads to an overall view of the environment situation around the ecopoints and the regions in Brazil. In all the EcoGuides you find an area to send us YOUR SUGGESTION back. Feel like lost? Please send us your comments, suggestions, critics, information on the places, whatever... It’s an interactive work. Always toward the main goal of environment preservation with social justice, all over.