The Emas National Park is located in the southwest of the state of Goiás, encompassing 132 thousand hectares across the municipalities of Mineiros and Chapadão do Céu in Goiás, and Costa Rica in Mato Grosso do Sul. The Park was created in 1961 and had its boundaries rectified in 1972. It protects various vegetation formations of the Cerrado, from open savannah, bushlands, to woodlands that host an immense number of species, some of them endemic and as others in peril of extinction. Due to its great biodiversity, it was recognized in 2001 as a World Natural Heritage Site by Unesco.
