Geopark
Paleorrota is the main area of
geotourism in
Rio Grande do Sul and one of the most important in
Brazil. With 83,000
km² inside 281,000
km² of the
state, where many fossils of the
Permian and
Triassic period, with ages ranging between 210 and 290 million years ago, when there were only the continent
Pangaea.