Ecological Reserve

Centro Caraívas is the reception area for the Vale da Dhyana Ecological Reserve, a seventy-acre property of gallery forest and Cerrado in the Brazilian central plateau, along the Barriguda Creek, which supplies the water for the town of Pirenopolis -Pop: 13,000. The reserve is within the Serra dos Pireneus APA (Area of Environmental Protection),an area preserved for its natural beauty, ancient geological formations and rich biodiversity. It is located one mile from Pireneus State Park. Thirty acres of this property were bought twenty years ago for preservation purposes. The remaining forty acres have been acquired recently in order to expand the reserve, implement reforestation projects, and to create wildlife corridors connecting other parts of gallery forest in neighboring properties that still remain undisturbed to this day. Centro Caraívas Reserve, where the unique vegetation of the Cerrado abounds, is home to exotic gardens, forests and a rich biodiversity of flowers, birds, mammals and butterflies, and the beautiful Dhyana waterfall. The reserve is now in the process of becoming an RPPN–Private Reserve of the Natural Patrimony, and is open for visits offering beautiful accommodations and a cozy restaurant.