Cachoeira da Fumaça State Park, State park with 140-meter waterfall in Alegre, Brazil.
Cachoeira da Fumaça State Park is a protected area featuring a 140-meter waterfall within the Atlantic Forest. The landscape includes natural pools and streams that have formed around the falling water over time.
The park was established in 1984 through state legislation to protect this landscape. An expansion occurred in 1990 that brought additional forest lands into the protected area.
The name refers to the spray thrown off by the 140-metre fall, which hangs over the gorge like smoke. The park is a regular destination for school groups from Alegre, Guaçuí and Castelo, and the falls are reached by an 800-metre walk through Atlantic Forest.
The waterfall is reached by an 800-metre walk through Atlantic Forest, and the park has four tracks of different difficulty. The access road from Alegre, about 33 km away, is paved in cobblestone. In the hottest season the park receives around 3,000 visitors per month.
The park was expanded in 1990 after residents of Alegre, Guaçuí and Castelo asked the state to expropriate 27 hectares of pasture inside its boundaries. That land is now being replanted with native species, and resident and migratory birds have returned since 2008.
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