Memorial do Cerrado
Memorial do Cerrado
Elected in 2008 as the most beautiful place in Goiânia, Memorial do Cerrado, complex scientific works in the PUC Goiás Campus II is a project of the Institute of sub-humid Tropic representing the various forms of occupation of the biome and relationship models with nature and society. It is a museum that depicts the origin of the planet from Earth to the arrival of Portuguese in Brazil.
The memorial spaces that together represent the various forms of occupation of the Cerrado and models of relationship with nature and society. They are:
Natural History Museum
Exhibition space and scenarios in which panels narrate the evolutionary history of the Earth and the environment of the Cerrado. Visitors can see fossils dating to 600 million years.
Scenic village of Santa Luzia
Reconstruction in the original size of the first Portuguese colonial home villages in central Brazil. The town has urban and rural, with replicas of farms and rural shops, responsible for the generation of wealth at that time. Walk through the site is a way to insert into history, since the visitor is in direct contact with the old mills, distilleries clay, brown sugar and sugar shop, blacksmith shop, harness, funnel carpenter, sawmill, and also sells - trade point of the season - the church, city hall, jail, the brothel, among other interesting attractions.
Native village
Original size replica of an Indian village Timbira model, which has the circular shape, where each house has a driveway to the yard - the center of activities of the tribe.
Quilombo
Geographical location and local resistance held and organized by the African people or african-Brazilian fleeing slavery. In the Memorial do Cerrado is an accurate replica of the existing models of quilombos in the cerrado.
Space Environmental Education Dalila Barbosa Coelho
Outdoor auditorium with 150 seats, and place for educational workshops, picnics and recreation.
Ecological Trails
With 2 km long, it was opened inside the reserve intact tropical forest and savanna that exists in the Science Station St. Joseph This is an ideal place for contact with nature and the development of sportsmanship and adventure. As a protected area, the "Trail of the Pilgrim Seed" provides visitors the opportunity to realize the interaction of knowledge about the environment, notably the scientific knowledge of plant and animal world.
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Address: Universidade Católica de Goiás - Campus II Setor Central, Goiânia - GOActivities near to Memorial do Cerrado
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