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Photo: Gabriel Ramos — Pexels License. Source: Pexels.

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About Canyons in the Mist, Cambará do Sul

Near Cambará do Sul, in the north-east of Rio Grande do Sul, the high plateau ends suddenly in a line of huge canyons cut into the basalt, with walls up to about 700 metres high. The best known, Itaimbezinho and Fortaleza, lie in the Aparados da Serra and Serra Geral national parks. Warm, damp air from the Atlantic often rises against the cliffs and turns into mist and cloud, so the canyons can disappear and reappear within minutes. On the plateau above, cattle graze on open grassland among stands of araucaria pine. This photo shows the green cliffs with mist drifting through them.

Puzzle tip: start with the sunlit grassland at the top; the dark cliffs come next, and the white mist last.

Location
Brazil, South America
Theme
Nature