HOW CRAZY COOL IS THIS PLACE?! Lençóis Maranhenses National Park is home to Brazil’s most beauuutiful sand dunes! What a breathtaking sight!
Stretching on for miles upon miles, the sand dunes in Brazil’s Lençóis Maranhenses National Park are so vast and so blindingly white that it’s easy to see how the park got its name—Lençóis Maranhenses, in Portuguese, literally means “bedsheets of Maranhão,” the northeastern coastal state where the national park is found. Two rivers run through the Lençóis Maranhenses—these rivers push sand from the interior of the continent to the Atlantic Ocean, depositing thousands of tons of sediment along Brazil’s northern coast. During the dry season, especially during the months of October and November, powerful winds from the equatorial Atlantic whip the Lençóis Maranhenses sand back inland, carrying it as far as 30 miles and creating the vast, sculpted sand dunes for which the park is famous. Learn more by clicking here!
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