[2] It occupies an area of 2,405 square kilometres (929 sq mi) in the municipalities of Alto Paraíso de Goiás, Cavalcante and Colinas do Sul.

Some reports say that Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil visited Cavalcante, making it the capital of the Empire for a day.

The necessity of slave labor to work the mines in the Chapada dos Veadeiros was so great that the region is now home to some of the biggest Quilombo communities in Brazil.

With the end of the golden period of mining, the Chapada dos Veadeiros had only an isolated collection of villages; they were rediscovered and engaged in tourism to support Kalunga communities.

Nowadays therapists and nature lovers seek energies and the power to cure from the crystals and from places like Alto Paraiso.

The rich fauna of the region includes species, some of which are threatened by extinction, such as the pampas deer (locally known as veado campeiro), marsh deer (cervo do pantanal), maned wolf (lobo guará), jaguar, and others like the rhea (ema), seriema, tapeti, giant armadillo (tatu canastra), anteater (tamanduá), capybara (capivara), tapir (anta), green-beaked toucan (tucano de bico verde), black vulture (urubu preto), and the king vulture (urubu rei).