One of Brazil’s remotest national parks, Seven Cities, is an archaeological and geological wonder, named after the mythological Lost Seven Cities.  Founded in 1961, it is located in the northeast’s Piauí state, and occupies an arid middleground between the Brazilian cerrado (or dry savanna) and caatinga, or semi-desert, which is the native name for “white forest.”  Due to the unlikely presence of natural springs, the Tabajaras Indians settled here, leaving over 1,500 cave paintings.  Monumental rocks of curious designs were formed by sun, water and wind erosion over a sandy and quarzt laced landscape.  Such is the human imagination: over a hundred graphic rock formations gained look-a-like names. Rock groupings were categorized into Seven Cites, their legendary lost companions now found.  [Please hover over images for captions]