Parque Serra Azul, Barra do Garças Live Cam

A viewpoint in the Serra Azul park looks down on Barra do Garças from the ridge above the town, in eastern Mato Grosso. The webcam covers the deck, the monument and the valley below.

Getting up here on foot means about twelve hundred steps cut into the hillside, and the climb is made as a pilgrimage at Easter. The park protects the dry forest and cerrado on the slopes above the rivers.

The ridge is the western end of the Serra do Roncador, which runs north from here towards the Xingu. Barra do Garças keeps a monument marking the geodetic centre of South America, one of several places in Brazil to claim it.