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Drone photo & video · Chapada Diamantina
In short
Drone photo & video in Chapada Diamantina starts at $300: 60 min on location with a photographer who works in Chapada Diamantina, and 25 edited photos + a 1-minute edited film delivered to a private gallery within 7 days.
Why choose drone photo & video in Chapada Diamantina?
Chapada Diamantina is a landscape that makes sense from above: table mountains in rows, canyons cut into the plateau, rivers dark as tea. A drone shows the scale that a camera on the ground cannot. It is also a landscape split between owners, a national park, municipal parks and private land, and the same hill can sit under three sets of rules depending on which side of a line the take-off point falls.
Worth knowing about Chapada Diamantina
In the Parque Nacional da Chapada Diamantina, ICMBio's Instrução Normativa nº 12/2025 requires its free Autorização Especial para Captação de Imagem for any filming outside places and hours open to visitors or that changes the visiting routine. The Morro do Pai Inácio is a municipal park of Palmeiras instead, so a drone session there is cleared with the Prefeitura, and either way the flight itself also needs DECEA's SARPAS authorisation.
What does the session in Chapada Diamantina look like?
- Morro do Pai Inácio
- The view over the mesas at sunset, inside a municipal park run by Palmeiras.
- Lençóis and the Rio Lençóis
- The listed town in its amphitheatre of hills, flown from outside the crowded centre.
- Marimbus
- Flooded plain and slow rivers, flown at morning when the water is still.
What does drone photo & video in Chapada Diamantina include?
- 60 minutes on location, with the time in the air set by batteries, wind and airspace
- 25 edited aerial photos
- A 1-minute edited aerial film with licensed music
- Flown under third-party liability insurance, with the drone registered in ANAC’s SISANT and the flight authorised in SARPAS
- Photos and film delivered within 7 days
Permits at these locations: Morro do Pai Inácio: Entry fee charged by the Prefeitura de Palmeiras, which runs the Parque Natural Municipal do Pai Inácio; the figure changes, so it is checked with the municipality before booking Marimbus: No ICMBio entry fee; canoe trips run about four hours from Remanso to the Rio Roncador
FAQ — Drone photo & video in Chapada Diamantina
Can a drone fly in the Parque Nacional da Chapada Diamantina?
Only with the park's agreement. ICMBio's Instrução Normativa nº 12/2025 requires a free Autorização Especial para Captação de Imagem for filming in the Parque Nacional da Chapada Diamantina outside visitor places and hours or when it changes the visiting routine, and the drone flight also needs SARPAS authorisation from DECEA.
What drone rules apply in Chapada Diamantina?
In Chapada Diamantina, as everywhere in Brazil, ANAC's RBAC nº 100 keeps a drone 30 m horizontally from people who are not involved or consenting and limits the open category to 120 m above ground within sight, and DECEA's ICA 100-40, in force since 1 July 2026, requires every flight to be authorised in SARPAS.