Pedra do Baú, São Bento do Sapucaí, State of San Paulo, Brazil

Pedra do Baú, São Bento do Sapucaí, State of San Paulo Brazil

Pedra do Bau, also known as Baú Complex, is an important set of gneissic rocks located in the municipality of São Bento do Sapucaí, state of São Paulo, Brazil.

The highest summit is Baú Rock at 1950 meters of altitude and with walls of about 400 meters, famous for hosting some of the most important sport climbing routes and also trad routes. It is formed by Bauzinho, Pedra do Baú and Ana Chata Rock.

Baú Rock was first climbed in 1940 by brothers Joçao and Antonio Teixeira de Sousa, known as Cortez brothers.

Two years later, the businessman Luis Dumont Villares sponsored the construction of the first two access roads to the stone (known iron stairs – via ferrata), at the southern side of the mountain, located in São bento de Sapucaí, and on the north side as well.

Sometime after it was built the first mountain refuge in Brazil, at the top of the rock, which by the way it no longer exists (you can see only its foundations), vandalized over the years.

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