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TRILHAS INTERPRETATIVAS COMO INSTRUMENTOS DE GEOTURISMO E GEOCONSERVAÇÃO: Caso da trilha do Salto São Jorge, Campos Gerais do Paraná

2010; UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO; Volume: 2; Issue: 21 Linguagem: Inglês

10.12957/geouerj.2010.1487

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Ana Cláudia Folmann, Maria Lígia Cassol Pinto, Gilson Burigo Guimarães,

Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research

The interpretative trails have stood in the tourism context as a valuable tool in the natural patrimony conservancy.A modality of tourism that has gained more and more adepts is the Geotourism.This work intends to show the importance of the trails as an instrument of geotourism and geoconservancy, if equipped with the adequates interpretative mids.The Salto São Jorge, in the borough of Ponta Grossa -PR stands up due to the exposition of the rare geological contact constituted by rocks of the Furnas Formation, Iapó Formation and the Cunhaporanga Complex.The geosite even presents archaeological and historical attributes and it's visited for the sport practice and leisure.The way that tourism has been made (often characterized as mass tourism) is causing impacts to natural heritage, including threats to geodiversity.To reverse that situation and contribute to the visitors can have esthetic appreciation and geological knowledge about the environment; some proposals of interpretative points in the trail are suggested and trail's improvements.