Visit 3 archaeological sites in Brazil

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Archaeological sites have emerged as obvious drivers of tourism over the last few decades, due to the increase in the number of visitors and the income generated.
Brazil is among the nations that have very suggestive sites to show to travelers who enjoy the observation of mysterious engravings on rocks, monuments, vestiges of old cities, as well as cave paintings in those sites that are preserved for their values.

INGÁ STONE
The Inga Stone is one of the most significant archaeological monuments in the world, and the enigmas engraved on the rock in which you can appreciate different drawings whose according to the latest estimates could be about 6000 years old.
That block treasures 24 meters and 3 meters high of hieroglyphics, and according to experts a series of groupings of stars and dots that evoke the constellations and the Milky Way, while other studies point to evidence of a solar calendar.
Several hypotheses have been put forward about the Inga Stone, but for the moment it remains a further archaeological mystery to be solved, and at the same time a tourist attraction that receives thousands of visitors.

CAPAVIRA NATIONAL PARK
In this park is the Sierra de Capivara, an exceptional archeological site with cave paintings from more than 10,000 years, whose archeological sites were discovered in the 1960s.
Researchers have identified 800 archaeological sites there, of which 600 have cave paintings, many in an intense red color, such findings are spread over a territory of 1,300 square kilometers, which makes it possible to assure that it is the place of the highest density of rock art in all of the Americas.
Among these pieces of evidence, the Piedra Furada stands out, a cave of 17 meters deep, full of artifacts and whose walls have accumulated more than a thousand prehistoric paintings, the earliest dates back 12,000 years, although most are between 4,000 and 10,000 years old. Their favorite pictorial themes were dances, sex, tree rituals and hunting.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF SAN MIGUEL ARCANGEL
The Archaeological Site of San Miguel Arcángel, popularly known as the Ruins of San Miguel de San Miguel de las Misiones, was originally called the Mission of San Miguel Arcángel, is the remains of the ancient Jesuit reduction of San Miguel Arcángel, a member of the called Siete Pueblos de las Misiones.
To visit this place is necessary to travel through 400 years of history. The fathers of the Society of Jesus had the mission to convert the Indians that inhabited that region of America to Christianity. The groups of missionaries were composed of Guarani Indians who inhabited the region, an area now known as the State of Rio Grande do Sul.
In 1626, a division arose between the Jesuits and the villages inhabited by the Indians and the catechists. Between 1636 and 1639 they were attacked by the colonizers, but then, in 1682, the foundation of the Siete Pueblos de Misiones.