Sobre Buzios - Eco-tourism in Buzios
Brazil is the country with major biodiversity of the world and Buzios with his blessed nature, is a faithful reflection of this condition and offers interesting options for the lovers of this discipline.
Serra das Emerências
The Reserve das Emerências is inside an enormous area of Atlantic Sea protected Totally virgin, in the same one still they can find almost extinct Monos León Dorados and an enormous quantity of trees of Pau-Brazil. The Sierra is characterized by small coastal clumps of origin, precambrian, being endemic outline by species, as the cactus " Piloso Sereus Ulei ".
Ecological reservation do Tauá
Tauá's Reservation in Búzios is an archaeological, anthropological and geological reservation. It possesses an enormous diversity of bromélias, cactus and exotic lianas. In the same one it is possible to see, monkeys " bare hands ", wolves "puppies - do-mato", monkeys "macaques - prego", cotias, tatus and many other species threatened with extinction. The access is restricted and, they exist visited guided, that they must be before authorized for the Municipal Secretariat of Buzios's Tourism it is been allowed. Inside the reservation there is a museum that possesses artists' works of Búzios. This one located in an area closely of 100 thousand square meters, where already it existed sea before near 6.000 or 7.000 years and still it is possible to see a fossil beach with his quite covered soil of white snails. It estimates that 40 % of 1.300 species of bromélias existing in Brazil is in Tauá. The Reservation occupies approximately three millions of square meters, fills completely of formation of typical vegetables of the region that use as coat and put for migratory birds.
Birds, they cross 2400 kilometres to come to Búzios. APA do Pau Brasil
The reservation " APA do Pau Brasil " is an area of environmental preservation of the tree that gave his name to Brazil.
It covers an area of 9.940 hectares, including parts of continental, insular and maritime, of a territory located between Tucuns's Beach, in Búzios, and the Channel do Itajuru, in Cold End.
The protection of the " Serra das Emerências ", of the Dunes of Peró and of the islands it is fundamental for the preservation of considerable forest reminiscences of Atlantic The protection of the sea, including the deep sea, to sheet of water and the surface, is important for the maintenance of fishing reservations and of the marine biota, not used by men. The APA contains 12 thousand square meters of reservation of pau-brasil, that is studied and monitored for a team of the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro. The protected area is one of 14 areas do Brazil considered rich in vegetation endemic and center of diversity of plants. Of 14 areas, only two are in Rio de Janeiro: the Atlantic Mat and the littoral of Cold End and Búzios protected by the APA.
Waterfalls of Sanaa
The Arraial do Sanaa possesses natural beauties that deserve to be visited: crystalline rivers, waterfalls and mountains with exuberant vegetation.
The principal attraction is waterfalls for the rivers Sanaa and Peito do Pombo and several that they present:
Cachoeira Roncadeira ou do Tamanduá that has 80 mts of height, Cachoeira do Segredo, Cachoeira do Vaguinho, Escorrega, of more easy access and ideal for children, Cachoeira das Andorinhas, He(She) remains d'Agua, Resinging das Borboletas, Cachoeira-Mãe, Cachoeira-Pai, Cachoeira do Filho, Cachoeira das Sete Quedas, Cachoeirinha das Boa Sorte, Fervedeira, Cachoeira do Segredinho, Cachoeira de São Bento, Cachoeira do Silêncio The Circuit das Águas, it is a natural water park formed by someone of these waterfalls that offer an access easily for the visitor. Other one of the attractions is one to rocky formation known as " Peito do Pombo " Breast of Dove that makes alike the figure of one pigeon put on a stone 1120 mts of altitude and gives name to the river.