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Portuguese pavement, known in Portuguese as calçada portuguesa or simply calçada (or pedra portuguesa in Brazil), is a traditional-style pavement used for many pedestrian areas in Portugal. It consists of small pieces of stone arranged in a pattern or image, like a mosaic .
In 2013, the site of Toca da Tira Peia, also in Serra da Capivara National Park, was shown to have signs of human presence dating to 22,000 years ago. [7] [8] As of 2014 the nearby site of Sitio do Meio has been excavated over the years. Although not as old, it helps to support and clarify the chronology of Pedra Furada.
In the 1930s, the Terra Nostra Park was acquired by Vasco Bensaude, who saw it primarily as an addition to the Terra Nostra Hotel. At that time, the park reached an area of 12.5 hectares, divided into gardens and forest. [4] Vasco Bensaude had a great knowledge of botany and horticulture, as did his gardener of Scottish origin, John McEnroy.
Pedra do Sal (English: "Rock of Salt") is a historic and religious site in Rio de Janeiro, in the neighborhood of Saúde.The site was originally a quilombo village. An association group still lives there, formally known as the Community Descendents of the Quilombos of Pedra do Sal (Portuguese: Comunidade Remanescentes de Quilombos da Pedra do Sal).
Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve of Sur Lípez Province, Bolivia. [1] Much photographed, it projects out of the altiplano sand dunes of Siloli in the Potosí Department , about 18 kilometres (11 mi) north of Laguna Colorada .
Terra de Areia is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The municipality contains the 113 hectares (280 acres) Mata Paludosa Biological Reserve , created in 1998, a fully protected conservation unit.
Pico da Pedra (Portuguese: peak of the rock) is a civil parish in the municipality of Ribeira Grande in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 2,909, [ 1 ] in an area of 6.58 km 2 .
Terra de Miranda ("Land of Miranda") (Tierra de Miranda in Mirandese, Terras de Miranda in Portuguese) is the historical name of a 500 km² mesa in northeastern Portugal, lying on the border of Spain. It used to be an administrative division, and although it does not correspond to a modern-day region's borders, there are some cultural ...