CAMPO GRANDE AND REGION
Denomination which covers the Capital and seven more municipalities- Rochedo, Rio Negro, Terenos, Corguinho, Jaraguarí and Sidrolândia- has a great tourist potential, having as highlight rural tourism, eco-tourism and events.
- The Capital, with immense green areas, wide avenues, varied accommodation options and good commercial and services structure, stands out as one of the capitals with the best life quality in Brazil, mostly in business and events, tourism and great investments in rural tourism:
- Rochedo, with its waterfalls, rocks, fauna and flora, its customs and habits which inspire the practice of tourism in a sustainable way thus preserving the natural and cultural property;
-Rio Negro possesses a steep relief, carved by canyons and valleys which gave form to beautiful rapids and waterfalls, with water falls up to 100 m high. It also has, archaeological sites with rupestrine inscriptions;
- Corguinho. With an excellent potential- waterfalls and streams- the tourist investments have been elaborated in a way that it can also be committed to the economic development of the region;
- Jaraguarí – has a strong appeal for historical tourism because of the presence of the Dionísio’s Furnas slave hideout community; the Japanese emigration history and for rural and leisure tourism;
- Sidrolândia – one of the municipalities that grows the fastest in the State, thanks to the agriculture-pasture production resulting from the combination of favourable climate, productive soil, storage and flowing infra-structure, besides the tradition in the use of high technology on research, planting and grain harvesting.
THE PANTANAL
The largest flooded plain in the planet and scenery of an incredible bio-diversity, the Southern Mato Grosso Pantanal, harmonious combination of water, animals, woods and people, has become one of favourite Brazilian destinations by the national and international tourist. In its municipalities: Anastácio, Aquidauana, Corumbá, Miranda and Porto Murtinho, there is a great structure to meet the most diversified needs of different clients.
The Frontier Routes
The Frontier Routes Tourist Region has a privileged situation in relation to the large commercial centres in Brazil and in South America.
With 22 municipalities, 5 bordering Paraguai and 4 bordering the Paraná State, they make up 30 % of the State territory, approximately, with a population of 580.000 inhabitants.
It runs from the Paraná River’s plains up to the Maracajú’s plateau, with sceneries sketched of forests, mountain ranges and savannas. The region has a privileged climate and it is one of the Country’s richest in hydro-mineral resources, making up the biggest subterranean fresh water reserve in South America, the Guarani Aquiferous.
It is considered, nowadays, the largest agricultural border of the Country, it is responsible for 59% of the State production and its main cultures are: sugar-cane, soy beans and corn. Besides, it contributes to approximately 24% to the composition of the State Gross Domestic Product
The Frontier Route is a new region in the South of the State, that has great ethnic richness inherited from the indigenous tribes and the slave hideouts, groups that well before the State foundation, had already understood that that was an ideal place to live.
Its fertile lands and the natural vocation of respect to differences, attracted to the region, Brazilians from all parts of the Country: the gauchos, the people from the northeast, São Paulo, Paraná and Minas Gerais. So, like the Paraguaian, Japanese, Italian and Arabic they were the first to find comfort and working prospects to fulfill their dreams.
For being a very complex area, the trip must be planned. There are many ways to explore the region, among them:
- Cross part of the Pantanal by boat: there are many Operators which offer this service;
- For those who enjoy fishing, there are excursions specialized in fishing or the possibility of staying on a farm or in one of the towns and then, go on boat, jeep, horseback or hiking on foot.
Some of these farms are in very remote regions in the Pantanal, and the transfer is done by plane.
- In the Pantanal, any time of the year is the right time .for those who enjoy interacting with nature. Most of the farms offer good infra-structure and tourist help with ecological consciousness and local culture preservation. By boat, on horseback or on foot along the plains, it is possible to observe the herons’, tuiuius’ and colhereiros’flights, the macaws’ and toucans’ çolours, the deer’s, capybara’s and ariranha’s walk, the sucuris’and caymans’ sunbathing, howling monkeys’sounds and maybe spotted jaguar in the midst of the thicket.
CLIMATIC VARIATIONS AND THE PANTANAL DIVERSITIES
January to April: Period of floods, rich in flora, mostly water plants, beautiful scenery, mammal concentration, beginning of birds’arrival, hot weather at the end of the day, long days, rains;
May, June and July: The draining period – transition from “floods” to “draught”- very rich time for birds, mostly the Colhereiro. Reptiles and small caymans. Colder nights and dry days;
August and September: period of birth of the birds from the nest eggs, much drier rivers, violet and pink colours in the Ipê trees, good time for fishing, with no rains, dry vegetation, a lot of reptiles, sudden changes in temperature;
October, November and December: Birds’ preparation to leave the nest, concentration of small birds, dry rivers and vegetation, hot climate, water lilies in bloom and a beautiful sunset.
BONITO – THE BODOQUENA MOUNTAIN RANGE
On the southeast of the State the municipalities of Bela Vista, Bodoquena, Caracol, Guia Lopes da Laguna, Nioaque, Jardim and Bonito make up this tourist region gifted with inumerous crystal water rivers, genuine natural aquariums, grottos with magnificent lakes, craters full of wild life, among others and a cultural historic important legacy.
The Bodoquena, Bonito and Jardim complex near the southern Mato Grosso Pantanal and about 300 km from Campo Grande is the combination of harmony and interaction with nature.
Eco-Tourism is understood as an activity developed in natural surroundings, provides tourists with diversified experience, adds value to community, in accordance with the principles of environmental, cultural and social sustainability, thus contributing to the spreading and the knowledge of the region’s eco-system.
Bela Vista, Nioaque, Guia Lopes da Laguna, Caracol and Antonio João, besides the natural beauties have as legacy the boundary cultural influence, and for their formation of a corridor in the region, they were scenery of the Laguna Retreat, the biggest Brazilian Army epic in the Triple Alliance War, also known as the Paraguai War.
The regional gastronomy is diversified, culture is rich, nature preserved and the people are hospitable.
NORTHERN ROUTE
The tourist and economic potentiality of Alcinópolis, Coxim Camapuã, Bandeirantes, Cassilãndia, Chapadão do Sul, Costa Rica, Figueirão, Pedro Gomes, Rio Verde of Mato Grosso, São Gabriel do Oeste and Sonora municipalities, is a credential for the region as a productive pole of great value in Mato Grosso do Sul. Natural beauties, history and culture provoke the desire to know and enjoy all the emotion that this region can offer.
- 400 million year old rocks, refined by the wind, form sculptures which fascinate by the beauty of their forms and incite imagination.
- Land of the Caiapós and Coroados brave Indigenous, bathed by the Coxim, Correntes, Piquiri, Sucuriú and Taquari Rivers; mountain ranges, hills, canyons, archeological sites, rupestrine inscriptions and enlightened termites compose sceneries for eco-tourism and adventure;
- Entrance door to the Paraguás and the Nhecolãndia Pantanal which house bays, salt mines, corixos, tuiuiús, herons, caymans, capybaras, fish and so many other animals that live together in perfect harmony with the local dwellers.
- Cities that appeared with the colonizing Expeditions which in the middle 1700s went up the rivers looking for gold in the Cuiabá Mines, the Monsoons Route;
- Our simple people, but with skillful hands that transform clay, straw, the buriti leaf, bamboo, wood, cane brandy, leather, cotton thread in expressions of art and culture of their people.
EASTERN COAST
It’s formed by the municipalities of Aparecida do Taboado, Selvíria, Três Lagoas, Brasilândia, Bataguassú, Santa Rita do Pardo and Anaurilândia which together provide a scenery of beautiful views from the Paraná River and its boundaries, with diverse options of leisure and entertainment options on their margins with activities for various tastes. It presents four subject itineraries which make up the newest tourist destiny of the State.
On the Western Coast we can find the principal entrance door to Mato Grosso do Sul, way to the tourist region of Bonito- the Bodoquena Mountain Range, to the Pantanal and Campo Grande because of the proximity to the States of São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Paraná.
Três Lagoas – It is the city with the biggest centralization of industry in the State, holding the most modern Industrial Park, a planned structure which offers diversified logistic and energy modes, capable of attracting big investments from all parts of the world; watered by the Paraná, Sucuriú and Verde Rivers, which granted it the title of “The city of Waters”, thus the natural destiny for sports fishing, fresh water beaches, water sports, eco-tourism.
Aparecida do Taboado- Entrance door to Mato Grosso do Sul, the road rail Bridge that stands out for its modern architecture over the Paraná River’s immensity on whose margins we can find hundred of ranches and cottages on fresh water beaches.
Known by the Aparecida do Taboado’s Cowboy’s Feast, one of the biggest of its kind in the country, keeps on the farms and sites traditional characteristics of the colonization times and the rural scenery with wide pasture fields among the native bacurys.
NOVA ANDRADINA AND REGION
Entrance door on the border of the Paraná State is composed of the municipalities of Angélica, Deodápolis, Glória de Dourados, Ivinhema, Jateí, Jutí, Naviraí, Nova Andradina, Novo Horizonte do Sul and Taquarussú, of agricultural origin, and the municipalities of Nova Andradina and Naviraí standing out for their function of commercial poles.
Mostly, the municipalities that make up the region, the tourist activity is not yet explored. Nevertheless, they have a great potential for tourism in the rural area, eco-tourism, events, sports fishing, sun and fresh water beaches, besides the representative cultural diversity.
The State Varzeas Park of Invinhema River, in the Paraná River Bay, appeared as a compensatory measure of Engineer Sérgio Motta/CESP Hydro-Electric Plant. It is an area of periodic flooding, protecting refugees of the savanna, animal species and plants and seasonal forest. It aims at preserving the forests’ fragments, the remaining meadows and associated eco-systems to Ivinhema and Paraná Rivers, maintaining mechanisms of hydro-graphic local bays natural regulation and promoting the cultural patrimony protection in the region, with its flora, fauna, natural views and the other biotic and non-biotic resources.
Gastronomy is diversified: the varied ways of fish, the traditional preparation of barbecue of beef served with cassava, the vaca atolada, the puchero, are some of typical favourite dishes the region.
FRONTIER ROUTES
The tourist region FrontierRoutes has a privileged situation in relation to the big commercial centres in Brazil and South America.
With 22 municipalities, 5 bordering Paraguai and 4 bordering the Paraná State, they make up 30 % of the State territory, approximately, with a population of 580.000 inhabitants.
It runs from the Paraná River’s plains up to the Maracajú’s plateau, with sceneries sketched of forests, mountain ranges and savannas. The region has a privileged climate and it is one of the Country’s richest in hydro-mineral resources, making up the biggest subterranean fresh water reserve in South America, the The Guarani Aquiferous.
It is considered, nowadays, the largest agricultural border of the Country, it is responsible for 59% of the State production and its main cultures are: sugar-cane, soy beans and corn. Besides, it contributes to approximately 24% to the composition of the State Gross Domestic Product
The Frontier Route is a new region in the South of the State, that has great ethnic richness inherited from the indigenous tribes and the slave hideouts, groups that well before the State foundation, had already understood that that was an ideal place to live.
Its fertile lands and the natural vocation of respect to differences, attracted to the region, Brazilians from all parts of the Country: the gauchos, the people from the northeast, São Paulo, Paraná and Minas Gerais. So, like the Paraguaian, Japanese, Italian and Arabic they were the first to find comfort and working prospects to fulfill their dreams.
