serra da capivara
states: [brazil]
category: cultural
year: 1991
location: Sud-est de Etat du Piaui – Communes de Sao Raimundo Nonato, Sao Joao do Piaui et Canto do Butriti
region: Latin America and the Caribbean
latitude/longitude: -8.4166666670, -42.3333333300
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.
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