Saturday 17 June 2023

BRAZIL

This cover from Brazil depicts 2 Fauna stamps representative of the Araripe Geopark. The Araripe Basin (Portuguese: Bacia do Araripe) is a rift basin covering about 8,000 square kilometres in Ceará, Piauí and Pernambuco states of northeastern Brazil. It is bounded by the Patos and Pernambuco lineaments, and is situated east of the Parnaíba Basin, southwest of the Rio do Peixe Basin and northwest of the Tucano and Jatobá Basins. The basin has provided a variety of unique fossils in the Crato and Santana Formations and includes the Araripe Geopark, a member of the UNESCO Global Geoparks since 2006.