Lençóis Maranhenses National Park
The property is located in northeastern Brazil, on the east coast of Maranhão, in a transition zone between three Brazilian biomes: Cerrado, Caatinga and Amazon. More than half of its area consists of a white coastal dune field with temporary and permanent lagoons. Beyond its important role in biodiversity conservation, the park boasts globally significant aesthetic and geological / geomorphological values. Along an 80 km coastline, with beaches followed by plains, the prevailing winds shape the dunes into long chains of barchans, filled in the rainy season to create lagoons of various colours, shapes, sizes and depths. The property reveals its best scenery when the lagoons reach their maximum volume, creating rare beauty. The vast expanse of both stable and shifting dunes, the largest in South America, presents remarkable evidence of the evolutionary progression of coastal dunes throughout the Quaternary period.
伦索伊斯-马拉年塞斯国家公园
伦索伊斯-马拉年塞斯（Lençóis Maranhenses）国家公园位于巴西东北部的马拉尼昂州东海岸，地处塞拉多、卡廷加、亚马逊3大巴西生物群系间的过渡地带。白色海岸沙丘地带占据了其过半面积，其中包括永久性和临时性潟湖。公园不仅在保护生物多样性方面发挥重要作用，还具有世界级美学和地质/地貌价值。80公里的海岸线由沙滩覆盖，尽头则是平原。沙丘被盛行风塑造成长长的新月形沙丘链。雨季来临时，沙丘之间的洼地会被雨水填满，形成颜色、形状、大小、深浅各异的潟湖。蓄水量达到顶点时，公园景色美不胜收。这里拥有南美洲面积最大的固定沙丘和移动沙丘，为第4纪海岸沙丘的演变过程提供了出色例证。
Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1611
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