Paranoa

The Paranoá basin lies on the central Brazilian plateau, where streams feed the São Bartolomeu and ultimately the Paranaíba river system. Its uplands form part of the cerrado, a landscape of savanna, woodland and gallery forest along watercourses. This high country lies near a great watershed separating rivers that flow toward the Amazon from those that drain southward into the Paraná basin.

The later city of Brasília lies here.