Deserted Beach
Tens of kilometres.
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Superagüi National Park protects about 34,000 hectares of the Paraná coast: Superagüi and Peças islands and smaller isles, the Rio dos Patos valley and the Varadouro Channel that cuts the island off from the mainland. It is a place of bays, deserted beaches, dunes, estuaries, mangroves and dense Atlantic forest, recognised by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve in 1991 and listed in 1999 as part of the Atlantic Forest reserves World Heritage Site. The park is the main home of the black-faced lion tamarin, one of the most threatened primates on Earth, and at dusk flocks of parrots fly out to roost on small islands. In the village of Barra do Superagui live fishing families descended from those the Swiss consul Perret Gentil brought in 1852 to found a colony that never grew. No roads reach the island: boats leave Paranaguá for a two- to three-hour crossing, with few and changing departures, or you can hire a speedboat. The village has simple guesthouses, and from there you can walk the «Deserted Beach», which runs for tens of kilometres.
Tens of kilometres.
Flocks heading to roost.
Barra do Superagui.
Superagüi Island, Guaraqueçaba, Paraná coast (boats from Paranaguá)
By boat from Paranaguá in two to three hours, with few departures, or by hired speedboat; no roads reach the island.