Brazil - Sociobiodiverse Cultural Basin of the Chapada do Araripe

The Chapada do Araripe is located between the parallels of 7 and 8° South Latitude and the meridians of 39° and 41° West Longitude of Greenwich. It is a central plateau that forms a territory comprising three Brazilian states in the northeast of the country: Ceará, Pernambuco and Piauí. Due to its geomorphology, it acts as a watershed between the hydrographic basins of the Jaguaribe River to the north, the São Francisco River to the south and the Parnaíba River to the west. This element of the landscape covers an area approximately 180 km long (in an east-west direction) and varies in width between 30 and 50 km, comprising the extreme south of Ceará, the northwest of the state of Pernambuco and the east of the state of Piauí. In general, the top of the plateau lies between the altitudes of 850 and 1,000 m.