Introduction

photo: Artur Keuneck

We organize, equestres routes, fluvial expeditions,birdwhacting and walked expeditions. Our proposal is that the travellers; if the local cultures also to interact with the nature, living deeply and the natural life. However the focus of our work is in the expeditions equestre and riding, working points as; leadership, fellowship and all the universe of the horse. E soon we will be, closing partnership with the called company of tourism Brazil Safaris, much appraised in the tourism sector, in the Mato Grosso state.

photo: Hélio Caldas

Chapada dos Guimarães - Horse Rindding - MT

SAVANNA TABLELANDS :

(4 DAYS / 3 NIGHTS PROGRAM)

The heartland of Brazil covers an area equal to Western Europe (2,000,000 sq km), and its original vegetation is called “CERRADO”, considered the richest savanna in the world, due to its high plant diversit and endemism. Most of Brazil’s big rivers find their sources here. It’s an area of enormous ecological importance with many areas of spectacular beauty, as the National Park of “Chapada dos Guimarães”, only 55km North East from Cuiabá airport. Its biodiversity includes: 837 birds spices, 161 mammals, 120 reptiles and over 10.000 vascular plants from witch 44% are endemic. The region that today is called Chapada of the Guimarães, possessed intense movement, since the times most remote when the region was dominated only for the native South American, that in them had left many rupestres registrations and drawings in different points of the Chapada. Later Spanish teams of recognition mapearam the region, also establishing, some roads and ways that would be reopened by the Portuguese colonists eighty years later. After the arrival of the bandeirante São Paulo, Chapada knew a new dominate of its lands that, attracted by the ameno climate and the fertility of its humid valleys allies the salubrity of the region, if installed, producing foods for the mining region that dominated the region of Cuiabá until Diamantino, expanding this commerce until the Spanish colonies. At the first moment of 1779 ,1751, the trading detainers of the colonial bureaucracy in Mato Grosso had the 1751 dominated all the strategical canals of circulation and points.

photo: Artur Keuneck


(DAY 1 - CUIABÁ):

Arrival at Cuiaba/Várzea Grande airport or pick up and transfer to Chapada dos Guimaraes, Park EcoLodge. (aprox. 1 hour )
Check in at Park Eco Lodge, 60 Km from Cuiaba airport, briefing of the next day activity, dinner and Overnight.

photo: Stan Sounders

(DAY 2 – MATÃO TRAIL):

After breakfast departure to reach the “ Matao trail”, heading to the city of Chapada, crossing farms, and enjoying a wonderful view of the highest point of the region ( 840 m - the Air Force Radar’s Antennas).
Lunch at the city, returning by the “ Vale da Benção Trail”, passing by different farms with many natural attractions.
Return to the lodge, dinner and overnight at PARK ECO LODGE.

photo: Artur Keuneck

(DAY 3 – COLÉGIO BURITI TRAIL) :

After breakfast, departure heading the “Collegio Buriti”, for a visit on it’s installations, and attractions, as the Monjolin springs.
Lunch at a restaurant in the National Park, with possibility of waterfall baths. Return to the lodge, dinner and overnight at PARK ECO LODGE.



(DAY 4 – CUIABA):

After breakfast,check out and transfer to Cuiaba’s airport

GENERAL INFORMATION:

Capacity: Minimum of 02 passengers; Maximum of 06 passengers Type: Ecoturismo type/Program of moderate level. Transfer: Daily of Cuiabá for the Inn the 12:30 or 16:30 p.m and of the Inn for Cuiabá the 8:30 am or 12:30 h.

Enclosed: 03 you spend the night in Chapada of the Guimaraes - (Park Echo Lodge), meals and activities in accordance with the program. Permanent assistance of specialized guide. Note: We reserve the right to modify the inns and order of the script, for occasion of the confirmation, in accordance with the climatic availability of rooms, conditions (aiming at to preserve the product quality), operational aspects and others.

Guide: English (with possibility of Spaniard, German or Frenchman).

Not Enclosed: Aerial tickets, drinks, self-insurance, of luggage and equipment.

Clothes: Clothes of light cotton for the activities, including - long pants, long sleeve shirt (sun and insects), bermuda shorts, t-shirts, clothes of bath, hat, long stockings type for sport, shoes for walked (very important), sun hat or cap, eyeglasses, binoculars, lantern of pocket, penknife, repellent of insects, articles of personal hygiene. The inn supplies to towels and sabonete. For the cold period of June the September, to include sweater.


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photo: Hélio Caldas

Our objective, is to take knowledge, diversion and the sincere interaction of the travellers in the scripts and offered activities. Beyond my equestres abilities, currently I am discovering the universe of the adventure races, bike, canoagem and diving;it is a new and total fabuloso universe. All the activities, developed for me and my partners are carried through in natural and wild environments.

photo: Fiocruz


Initially I act only in the state of Mato Grosso; in the regions of the Pantanal North, Chapada of the Guimarães and also I am searching partnership in the region of the Valley of the Guaporé for development of routes in the related region.I am in the process of analysis of regions practises apt it of the ecoturismo in the state of the Rio Grande do Sul, which possesss places and wonderful natural beauties. Below it follows, soon description on the state of Mato Grosso;


photo: Hélio Caldas

*Geography of Mato Grosso:
Mato Grosso occupies an area of 906.806 inside Km2 of Brazil, bes situated it west of the Meridian of Greenwich and the south of the Line of the Equator and with hourly spindle -4 hours in relation world-wide hour GMT. In Brazil, the state is part of the region Center-West for the division of the IBGE, and for the geoeconômica division it is part of the Amazonian geoeconômica Region of Brazil, to the center-north, and also of the geoeconômica region center-south, to the center-south. The state of Mato Grosso makes borders with the states of Mato Grosso of the South, Tocantins, Goiás, Pará, Amazon, Rondônia and a country, Bolivia.

photo: Stan Sounders

* Climate: In MatoGrosso as well as in Brazil it has diverse types of climates, had the variations of latitude and altitude, with great influence in the temperature, rains, mainly the frontals, continentalidade and air mass, acting in the state the masses Equatorial Continenal, Tropical Continental and Polar Atlantic. The temperature variation is little and rains mainly happen in the period of December the February.

photo: Arquivo Público de MT

*Vegetation:
The vegetation of the state is part of the vegetation of the Amazonian Forest, Closed and bands of transistion as the Pantanal, Xingu and Cachimbo. The Amazonian vegetation is the biggest forest of the world covering part of 8 countries, also covering the region north of the state, also called Legal Amazônia, its main characteristics is the great trees and the ground forest poor, surviving of húmus of leves. The region with open pasture vegetation is most of the state, in accordance with the International organization Conservation 58% of the open pasture was substituted by agriculture with soy and cotton. The complex of the Pantanal is the biggest flooded area of the world and the biggest animal and vegetal diversity of the world in the south part of Mato Grosso, in 2001 was recognized for UNESCO as Natural Patrimony of the Humanity.

photo: Artur Keuneck

*Hydrography:
The state is part of three hidrográficas basins, the Amazonian basin is the predominant one in the State, great part of the region north with some rivers the right edge of the River Amazon between the main rivers is Rio Xingu, River Guaporé and Rio Teles Saucers. The Tocantins-Araguaia basin with the River Araguaia cuts to all the part the border east between Mato Grosso and Goiás with 2.115 km forming the biggest fluvial island of the world the island of the banana plantation. The river Paraguay is part of the basin platinum that is main the responsible one for the supplying of the Pantanal, other rivers of the basin platinum is the River Cuiabá, River Is Lourenço and Rio Taquari. The navigation for the rivers of the basin Amazônia is minimum therefore is crystalline areas with sedimentary and this if they form many waterfalls, the main navigable rivers are the River Paraguay and Rio Araguaia.

photo: Mario Friedlander

*Geology:
In the geologic scale the Pre-Cambrian period was the formation of the region of the Cachimbo and the nesting of the basin of the Araguaia-Tocantins, Xingu, Cuiabá and Alto Paraguay. In the paleozóico age with the formation of the Mountain range of They are Vicente. In the mesozóico age with the formation of the Parana river basin, incluíndo Chapada of the Guimarães) and the chapada one of the Parecis. In the cenozóica age sediments in the basin of the Pantanal and Island of the Banana plantation ocorream. The classification of the relief as Jurandy Ross as Plateaus: Chapada of the Chapada, Parana river basin of the Parecis, Residual South-Amazonian and reciduais Mountain range of High Paraguay. Depressions: South-Amazonian delinquent, depression of the Araguaia, Cuiabana Depression and depression of High Paraguay-Guaporé. Plain of the River Araguaia, Pantanal of the River Guaporé and Pantanal Mato-grossense.

photo : Arquivo Público de MT

*Demography:
Mato Grosso has a population of 2.803.274 hab. according to IBGE of 2005, with a demographic density of 2,6 hab/km2. For the characteristics found in the State the predominance is of adult people and with an index of decline for young and increase of aged. As 2000 census IBGE has a predominance of medium brown people who if assign of color. For the average of the State the emigration of the other States for Mato Grosso has a predominance of men due, however, in the great Cuiabá has predominance of women, fellow creature the Brazilian average. Mato Grosso occupies the IDH 9º enters the States of Brazil.

Bibliographical references PIAIA, Ivane Inêz. Geography of Mato Grosso. 3 edition, EDUNIC, 1997.

Common Black-Hawk
(Buteogallus anthracinus)

History Vila Bela - MT:

photo: Artur Keuneck

Fernando Paes of Barros and its Arthur brother, leaving of Cuiabá, had followed in route West of the Province in century XVIII, searching the discovery of new monchões, together with other mineradores that, beyond grumblers with the little result of the work in Cuiabá, were felt injured in its interests for the greed of the Portuguese Crown. Following always the same direction, they had penetrated in the Valley of the Guaporé, where previously it is Manoel Bicudo, great preador of the parecis indians, that opened it way, therefore, its footprints had been followed by the new adventurers who “Had reached Plateaus of the Parecis”, already devastado by its predecessors, had put chest, beyond, to the forest with that they toparam, in the diaper Sudo-West, between the Jaúru and the Guaporé, had beached a ship it, in perforated of “seven léguas of thickness”, that it inspired the name to them of Mato Grosso, data the region, and had been to have waters of the Sararé and Galera, to the chapada one, where them the richness mimou, when reviewing to them wonderful gold nuggets. Taken the administrative measures, that if made necessary in cases such, for soon consisting the Arraial de Sant'Ana, after that, of San Francisco Xavier and Ours Lady of the Pillar, all in the same one chapada, that the Sararé skirtes in pressed semicircle. They were, thus, launched settling landmarks of the region where, times later, would be built the Beautiful Village of the Santíssima Trindade, that would be later, the headquarters of the Captainship of Mato Grosso and Cuiabá, a time that, San Francisco Xavier would give origin to that population, raised, some time later, in the called small farm of Glad Landing, determined the posterior disappearance of the locality established for Fernando Paes of Barros. The great activity of the mineradores in them you cultivate just-discoveries, despertou the attention of the Portuguese Government, in virtue of its situation of border with the domínios of the Castilians, who lived in constant shocks with the Portuguese, aiming at to the assenhoreamento of both the edges of the River Guaporé, and to hinder that the Castilians took ownership of that rich region, until then unknown. Its first concrete attitude was the assignment of a General Captain to govern the Captainship of Cuiabá, created for Regal license of 08-05-1748. The choice fell again into the person of D. Antonio Rollim de Moura Tavares, who the 17-01-1751, assumed the exercise in Cuiabá.Trazia Rollim de Moura, severe “Regal Instructions”, signed for the proper queen, in Lisbon, in 17-01-1749. “Presumption enters the districts in that if it composes that General Captainship is of Cuiabá what presently more is found town, however, taking care of the one that in the Mato Grosso if requires the biggest monitoring, because of the neighborhood that has, it had for good, to determine that the head of the Government if put the same in district of Mato Grosso, in which you will make your costumada residence”. The delay of Rollim in Cuiabá it was of little time. Exploring for the sertões, for the same track left for predecessors, it reached the edges of the River Guaporé, arriving at the Arraial of San Francisco Xavier, with the firm intention to fulfill what he was definitive in the Regal Instructions. Rollim Moura, opposing the desire of the components of its comitiva, did not want to use to advantage the nucleus already formed of San Francisco, preferring to launch the foundations of the new Village, to the right edge of the Guaporé in the place of Glad Landing, in 19 of March of 1752. With the presence of the governor, for the mineral wealth, the granted privileges, the town took development, attracting new inhabitants. In 1754, it was changed clientele of the Chapada for the chapel of Saint Antonio of the Village, sita in the place where, in the following year, if it established the matrix of the SS. Trindade. The 15 of April of 1752, were ordered to construct for Rollim de Moura, the first construction, “the Palace of the Governors”, it of the First Church of the Santíssima Trindade was followed.

photo: Hélio Caldas

Before exactly to arrive the Beautiful Village, Luiz of Albuquerque already had traced the initial plan of its Government. He verified himself, thus, that the new Governor initiated its proper governmental one, adopting measured of moral and warning order, of character administrative. Seating, thus, solidly, in Government, can Luiz Albuquerque to give fulfilment orders received from Metropolis, taking still series of initiatives proper that of the Beautiful Village, a prominence position as City-Headquarters of the Captainship of Mato Grosso and Cuiabá, situation this, that enjoyed until when it lost such category, for force of the License of 1820 and 19 the Provincial Law nº, of 28 of August of 1835, that it transfers the Capital of the Province to Cuiabá.

photo: Mario Friedlander

The esplendor of Vila Bela, initiate with the Government of great general Luiz de Albuquerque, finished with the deposition it last General Captain Francisco de Paula Magessi Tavares, later Baron of Vila Bela, in 20 of August of 1821.

photo: Artur Keuneck


In the region of Vila Bela, we organize canoe expeditions; I descend the River Guaporé or its tributaries, long walked, comment of the local and safári also photographic fauna in this magnificent region of Brazil. All our activities; in the region they are executed by specialized professionals who are our partners and have deep knowledge of Beautiful Village. It comes with people, to cover the ways of Fawcett Colonel, to walk in the state park of the Mountain range of the Frank Ricardo and to interact with the local population; likeable and always receptive.

Staff:

Aynore Soares

Work professionally with horses has seven years, started as assistant of riding instructor, later made in period the course the same to work as instructor of basic riding for children in the Club Cuiabano de Hipismo, a center of riding located in Been Cuiabá of the Mato Grosso. I participated of tests of eqüestre jump, enduro, drum and beacon, being that, the two last, on the riding western, I also make doma rational basic in horses.

I say to the English and well basic German, and Spaniard of intermediate level, have interest in a Period of training to be able to improve and to perfect my performance as instructor and knight.I worked during two years as guide of raid by horseback and also taking care of diverse groups a local guide, in the Pantanal North. It works in the area of the ecoturismo always has four years, taking care of with gentility and security.

Hélio Caldas

photo: Artur Keuneck

Pernambucano of birth, but heart weeds-grossense inhabit in the state have more than 20 years, being a deep expert of the flora, fauna and peculiar aspects of the local cultural life. It created and it developed scripts, in diverse regions of the state for important operators of tourism, hoisting always with affection and tranquillity. Said language Portuguese.

Mario Friedlander

Known nature photographer, beyond exímio expert of the botany of the open pasture of the region of Mato Grosso, beyond one respected militant one in the ambient questions. It lead important expeditions of ambient matrix and rescue of the local traditions of the native populations of the state of Mato Grosso. Man of much wisdom in the ambient questions beyond saying a good EnglishBeing distinguished always for it disciplines and exactness when it is working as guide.

Artur Keuneck

Professional diver and also nature photographer, is specialist in subaqueous tourism but he is also great expert of the cultural peculiarities of Mato Grosso.

History of the Pantaneiro Horse

The Pantaneiro horse is, probably, deriving of crossings of equines of lusitana origin (Céltico, Barbel and Andalusian), of the Arab and the Argentine Creole, under pressure of the natural election (Domingues, 1957; Corrêa Son, 1973). The first phase of the historical formation of the Pantaneiro Horse is on to the foundation of Buenos Aires, in Argentina, 1.541. Peter Mendoza brought horses and mares, that had after been abandoned the fire of the village and its despovoamento. Readjusting to live in plains, the flock if reproduced as much that in 1580, when of the second foundation of Buenos Aires, already had register of wild herds in plains of Argentina. They were called " chimarrões". A century later these herds they were calculated in thousand. Already they had fond of Paraguay and from there they had passed to Brazil, brought for the hand of the indians knights (GUAICURUS, which the KADIWÉU were the predominant ones) and for the Jesuit Priests, when they had come to establish the guaraníticas reductions (Seven peoples of the Missions, Brazil and Salto del Guairá, Paraguay). These herds if had expanded as much that some animals had arrived at Paraguay and, from there, for the Chaco, had passed to the Pantanal of the Mato Grosso. The second phase of the formation of the Pantaneiro Horse starts accurately in the point where the Bandeirantes taming the pantaneira region had left the untied horses for all. These animals had been themselves spreading for the immense Weed plains, flooded almost that in permanent time for the river Paraguay. In consequence of the distances and difficulties of communication between this extreme zone and the coast, the Pantaneiro Horse was total isolated of another equine species, crossing itself freely between itself, without any influence and infusion of others sangues. An ANIMAL OF MUCH COURAGE became. Traditional creators prefer to keep them half-savages so that they do not lose the rusticidade. According to cuiabano historian Cavalcante Proença, the first horses had come in 1.580, with Dom Alvar Nunes Cabeza de Vaca, a compound of conqueror and missionary, nominated governor of the River of the Silver for the Spanish Kingdom, with the mission to save Buenos Aires and to develop Installation, in Paraguay. Cabeza de Vaca lode of ship until Santa Catarina, with four hundred people and 26 horses. From there it followed for land for Installation, in a passage made that it to cross the Pantanal, until the height of the meeting of the river Cuiabá with Paraguay. In this passage it lost some horses, that if had become " baguá" (wild horse) In these times the horse was valid a richness. It has a public writing of 1551, in Installation, of the purchase of a horse for four a thousand weights of gold. Little more than one hundred years later, in the same Installation, its value did not pass of four weights. What it made so great difference was that the horse if acclimatized easily in this part of America and if multiplied fast, mainly as horse baguá, created in freedom. The horse, come of the Europe, haunted our indians. The majority of had it to the tribes as fera (it prevented and it) or the way as hunting (it ate and it). But a nation, of mbaiás-guaicurus, understood right the horse it saw and it as transport and as weapon. E these indians, who already were senhoriais and conquering, had used the horse to increase infinitely its capacity of fight and its radius of action. They had become, from now on, the “indians knights”. With its diverse ramifications - between which of the Kadiwéu, existing until today in the region of the Bodoquena, Mato Grosso of the South, the indians knights occupied a territory that went of Cuiabá the Installation. They fought the other tribes in such a way how much the white - Spanish, Portuguese - that they came in search of domain and slaves. If they were almost imbatíveis fighting the foot, mounted if they had become the dog. Félix de Azara, commander of the Spanish Borders of the Paraguay of 1781 the 1801, wrote that the salvation was that guaicurus if contented with one alone canine tooth in each attack, “of the opposite would not remain one alone Portuguese in Cuiabá”. In 1795, the flock of the indians knights already was calculated in 8.000 animals for the colonel Rodrigues of the Prado, commander of the Fort of Coimbra, in the verge with Bolivia. Almost all trained bellwethers and in the art of the war, the cavalry and the sport. In the War of Paraguay, in 1864, the indians knights, already then Brazilian for one treated to peace signed with the Crown in 1791, had fought to our side, in a Pantaneiro Regiment formed with horses of its proper creation. E if had become important military factor in the defense of Mato Grosso. The pureness of the race, in part, was only possible thanks to the indians guaicurus. Many of the practical ones of handling, still today sights in the Pantanal, come of guaicurus, the indians knights, who had arrived to more than understand illness of horses of what of the bothering of proper them - in saying of the Spanish Jesuit Sanchez Labrador. The indians knights had given themselves so well with the horse who had created a proper way to mount, as much in the sport as in the war. This finished immortalized for painter Jean Baptista Debret in the picture Attack of the cavalry guaicuru, today a classic of our historical iconography, It immortalized the image of guaicuru, gallopping on the back of the Pantaneiro Horse, to run away from the reach of the enemy aiming. By the way, these warlike indians had been considered, to its time, the most agile cavalry of the world. The Pantaneiro horse is an animal agile, resistant, intelligent, persistent, capable to support long walked and possesss a good temperament. It was multiplied, forming a suitable type to the bioclimáticas conditions, fruit of the natural election for more than four centuries, with little or no interference of the man. The Pantaneiro Horse consisted in a factor of economic and social importance, becoming essential in works of cattle and the transport of the floated ones, as much in the Pantanal as in the serrana region. Currently he is being very used in the Clubs of Bow, in tests of long bow, apartação, of team penning, in untied, tests of reins, the raids by horseback, enduros, and has been remained to the height of other races, in all the competitions. The main types of pelagem of the Pantaneiros are: tordilho (the majority), bay, chestnut, sorrel, rosilho and lobuno. All for are accepted, less the albinic (melado). In the end of century XIX, the race entered in decline mainly due the illnesses, as " plague of the chairs " e the equine infectious anemia. Therefore the Brazilian Association of the Creators of Cavalo Pantaneiro was established in 1972 (ABCCP), whose headquarters are in Poconé, TM., having for purpose to congregate the creators, to organize and to keep the Genealógico Register of the race, to foment the creation and to study all the referring subjects to the Pantaneiro Horse. In 1988 the EMBRAPA/CPAP implanted a nucleus of creation in the Nhecolândia, Corumbá MS., in the Farm Nhu Mirim. In 1.989 the Association of the Creators of the Pantaneiro Horse of the Mato Grosso of Sul was established (ACCP/MS), that it had a period of great movement, but that, unhappyly it had paralyzed its activities. In 2.003 its documentation was reconstituted and came back to have important paper in the creation and election of the Pantaneiro Horse, also participating of Expo-Great, MS. the Federal University of the Thick act of Sul (UFMS) also keeps a criatório, in the Farm School, in Terenos, MS. and, it has been of excellent aid in the election of the Pantaneiro. The MS. today, has a so good flock how much of TM., cradle of the race of this " small great cavalo". The Pantaneiro Horse had exactly that to be a very special animal. The conditions of survival and service in the pantaneiras farms demand a resistance animal, of estamina and intelligence that the historical conjuncture drew almost miraculously for this region. It is not trick to pass ace more than times six months day and night with the leg inside d' water. For the majority of the other horses this is enough to apodrecer the hoof and to give to fever, making a white and disforme jelly. It is not easy to almost half survive year with capim under of agua, needing to bank the amphibian not to die of hunger.

photo: ABCCP

The horse " it embeds" the head in the water and, folder. It is not little to work the entire day in the heath, with the four threaded legs in the adobe and the mud. For a horse with open hoof and back impulse, this would be the surrender and the disconnection. As a specialist in horses says, Dr. Peter Gouveia, has more than half national most expensive century forming and judging several of craques: " what in other horses it would be defect - the closed hoof and the body of swimming athlete, with the ample chest and inclined crupper small e -, into the Pantaneiro if transforms into insuperáveis virtues. This small, thrifty and resistant horse still goes to finish recognized as the animal of ideal service for the Brasil." A chain of the formation of the Pantaneiro Horse says that for return of 1.736, then the Governor of Paraguay, ordered emissaries to buy a herd of cows in Is Vicente, SP., of where they had come you celebrate them " cows of Gaete". In the passage of the fields of Vacaria (Shining River, MS.), of Maracajú, MS., going for the Pantanal, some horses had been embezzled, others had been stolen by the indians guaicurus e, later, had spread themselves for the pantanais of the Mato Grosso. Another chain says that the Pantaneiro descends of the horses of the Farm of the Corral, in the State of Goiás and, that he was of Emperor D. Peter II, which presenteou the Governor of the Mato Grosso (Don Luis Melo Albuquerque Pereira and Cáceres), with a lot of mares and a sire. This, beyond serving the mares of the Real Cavalry, started to be used for the farmers of the pantaneira region of Vila Bela of the Santíssima Trindade at the time Capital of the State of the Mato Grosso. By having going of the Farm of the Corral, per many years, they had been called " CURRALEIROS" . With the foundation of the ABCCP., it came the REGISTER in the Ministry of Agriculture, with the name of HORSE PANTANEIRO. What nobody argues more is if the Pantaneiro is a race or not. It is a perfectly settled race has three hundred years more than - it certifies in official document the Coordinating Commission of the National Horse, of the Ministry of Agriculture. A race fruit of the natural election, with little or no action of the man.