[2] Most of the visitors to the palaeontological site are groups of high school students or scholars from various parts of the country.

The visitor reception centre for the national monument was inaugurated on 2 June 2015 by governor Marcelo Miranda.

It had administrative headquarters, bathrooms, male and female quarters, an auditorium and parking.

The objectives are to support scientific work and research, and to protect and conserve the palaeontological and biological diversity of the site.

[4] The monument holds the most important petrified forest in the southern hemisphere from the Permian period, which lasted from 299 to 250 million years ago.