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The Paleozoic age, left fascinates traces in marine rocks carved by a pre-historic ocean that existed in the region. The village of President Figueiredo has a rich geological past, mainly deposited in the margin where marine fossil as shells and fish are easily located on the side banks of the river urubu and waterfalls.
The fragmentation of the continent gave place to a desert divided by a river system the flowed to the pacific ocean, the margin of this ocean was covered by a giant forest of samambaias the accompanied the evolution and extinction of dinosaurs and the emergence of mammals, birds and flowers. The last ice age gave the formation of the forest, making it closed and finding ground and shaping the ecosystems and environments by a compartmentalized way. The lakes of yesterday now has the white color of the clay and where was only head of sea and river, and the predominant sand, the rivers began to be black or amber, translucent, for not carrying clay, only sand and humus of the forest. Currently, it is observed that waterfalls that early served as rest of crustaceans, worms trilobit, atromatolites, polens, and primitive plants, forming a mosaic of rare beauty. Presidente Figueiredo, the real El Dorado, land of charms and magic, that comes from the within the jungle, cold waters of unique flavor in the world, followed by forests inhabited by legends and myths of people immemorial, transforming the place in the paradise of ´´Galo da Serra´´, on the same montain that one day was a sea. many forests, rivers, waterfalls and caves are some of the attractions of Presidente Figueiredo, the village in located to 107 km from Manaus along the highway BR 174, road completly new paved. |
