BRAZIL | Monday, 14 January 2013 | Views [677] | View Larger Image
Raso da Catarina is one of the driest places in Bahia, Brazil. It hardly ever rains there and, when it does, it's vegetation automatically becomes green.
It is so hostile that it was used as a refuge by Brazilian outlaws that lived in the Northeast of the country during the first half of the 1900th century: the so called "cangaceiros", nomadic bandits, used to live in the Raso for long periods to escape the police, gaining food and water from cactuses and other strong plants.
