Caverna do Diabo
A famous cave.
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Eldorado is a small town of about 13,000 people on the Ribeira de Iguape River in southern São Paulo state, one of the twenty-nine municipalities officially classed as a «tourist resort» in the state; until 1948 it was called Xiririca, Tupi for «running water». Its history began around 1630, when Portuguese explorers came up the Ribeira looking for veins of gold, and mining villages grew along its banks, chief among them Ivaporunduva and Jaguary; the village of Xiririca followed around 1750. Its main draws are the Caverna do Diabo cave in its state park, the Meu Deus waterfall and the culture of Ivaporunduva, a community of descendants of Africans who escaped slavery, one of the oldest quilombos in the valley, which welcomes visitors. Wide tracts of protected Atlantic forest surround it.
A famous cave.
A historic community.
And Atlantic forest.
Eldorado, Ribeira de Iguape valley, southern São Paulo state
Xiririca, meaning «running water».