The Pico Agudo (Portuguese: 'acute peak') is a peak near the
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
ian municipality of Sapopema, Paraná. It is West of Sapopema, overlooking the valley of the
Tibagi River
The Tibagi River (Portuguese, ''Rio Tibagi'', also spelled ''Tibagy'' and ''Tibají'') is a river of Paraná state in southern Brazil. It is a tributary of the Paranapanema River.
See also
* List of rivers of Paraná
* List of tributaries of th ...
, North and downstream of the
Mauá Hydroelectric Plant
The Mauá Hydroelectric Plant, is a dam and hydroelectric power plant on the Tibagi River near Telêmaco Borba and Ortigueira in Paraná, Brazil.Sapopema prefecture.
It was surveyed between 1920 and 1930 by
Reinhard Maack
Reinhard Maack (2 October 1892 – 26 August 1969) was a German explorer, geologist and geographer.
Maack was born in Herford. While he was working as a surveyor and the headmaster of Windhoek school in central Namibia, he discovered ' The White ...
, one of the first geologists to explore the region, who made a
geological survey
A geological survey is the systematic investigation of the geology beneath a given piece of ground for the purpose of creating a geological map or model. Geological surveying employs techniques from the traditional walk-over survey, studying outc ...