Natural world · Evidence-led place record

Uberaba UNESCO Global Geopark

BR

Explore Peirópolis Geosite, home to Brazil's highest concentration of dinosaur eggs and vertebrate fossils, featuring attractions like the Dinosaur Museum and the L.I. Price Paleontology Research Center.Visit Serra da Galga Geosite, an internationally significant excavation site with new infrastructure planned for tourists and school visits.Celebrate Dinosaur Week in September with hands-on excavation activities, workshops, and guided geosite tours.

Uberaba UNESCO Global Geopark in BR
Photo: Anderson Bueno Pereira · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
CategoryUNESCO GLOBAL GEOPARK
LocationBR
DatasetUNESCO Global Geoparks
Listed/year2024
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness95%
SignificanceGLOBAL GEOHERITAGE; 452,300 ha

The oddity, explained

Why is Uberaba UNESCO Global Geopark unusual?

Uberaba UNESCO Global Geopark appears here because the approved source classifies it as natural world. The source describes it as Explore Peirópolis Geosite, home to Brazil's highest concentration of dinosaur eggs and vertebrate fossils, featuring attractions like the Dinosaur Museum and the L.I. Price Paleontology Research Center.Visit Serra da Galga Geosite, an internationally significant excavation site with new infrastructure planned for tourists and school visits.Celebrate Dinosaur Week in September with hands-on excavation activities, workshops, and guided geosite tours. Heritage Atlas treats that specific classification-and-description combination as the oddity; the score is a comparative discovery signal, not proof of mystery or the supernatural.

Evidence and further exploration

The coordinate, category and description remain tied to the cited source. Comparative oddness helps discovery; it does not add facts that the source does not provide.

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