Way back in historical time there was an Indian road. The road was travelled by Guarani Indians going fronm the sea to the mountains and vice-versa. Then the Portuguese built another road they called Caminho da Graciosa (Gracious' Way - something like this. When you hear the name of the road, we tend to ask Whose Way?). Later on, a new road called the Estrada da Graciosa (The Gracious' Road) was built. The road was made for heavier traffic, trucks and buses. What you see in the photo is part of the Estrada da Graciosa right after it passes downtown Quatro Barras, a city I felt like "liking". Today, traffic on the Graciosa can't be heavy. Heavy traffic travels on the BR 277 Highway. Sometimes the traffic is so heavy that a line longer than 60 kilometers will snake through the road for days. I walked the road you see. I went very close to the mountains. That is where all the water that goes to the Iguaçu / Iguassu comes from. It is watery!