Nandú

The upper Guandu valley lies among the wooded hills of inland Espírito Santo. Streams descend through the rugged country toward the Rio Doce, whose course reaches the Atlantic farther north. In the first half of the nineteenth century Frederico Wilmer sought gold in this region and found it at a place called Lagoa, on the Santo Antônio do Alto Guandu estate. The settlement later called São Sebastião do Alto Guandu grew in the same upland country.