Planaltina — Planaltina Map Poster & Print

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Planaltina Map Poster & Print

Planaltina sits on the central Brazilian plateau in the northeast of the Federal District, and from above it reads as two towns in one. A compact historic centre with short, irregular streets keeps the older pattern. Around it spread the wider, more regular residential sectors that grew as the capital region filled in, and beyond them the map breaks up into farmland, gallery forest and dry cerrado.

The settlement is older than Brasília itself and is usually described as the oldest urban centre in the Federal District. Its link to the capital goes back further than most people expect: in 1922 a foundation stone for a future federal capital was laid on a hill near the town, decades before construction began. Planaltina has kept that sense of being the place where the plateau was first settled.

A Planaltina map poster captures that contrast between the small original grid and the planned growth that followed. Streams cut shallow valleys through the surrounding land, and roads run out toward the ecological reserve of Águas Emendadas and the spiritual community of Vale do Amanhecer, both on the town's outskirts. In black and white, the open ground between neighbourhoods becomes as much a part of the design as the streets.