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Igarapés Do Juruena State Park
The Igarapés do Juruena State Park ( pt, Parque Estadual Igarapés do Juruena) is a state park in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Location The Igarapés do Juruena State Park is divided between the municipalities of Colniza (44.06%) and Cotriguaçu (55.94%) in the state of Mato Grosso. It has an area of . The park is bounded to the north by the border with the State of Amazonas and the Sucunduri State Park, Sucunduri State Forest and Aripuanã Sustainable Development Reserve in Amazonas. The Aripuanã River Aripuanã River ( pt, Rio Aripuanã) is a river in the Mato Grosso and Amazonas states in north-western Brazil. It is a tributary of the Madeira River in the Amazon Basin. The town of Novo Aripuanã is located on its banks where it merges into t ... defines the western boundary and the Juruena River defines the eastern boundary. The Juruena National Park lies to the east. The Igarapés do Juruena State Park overlaps by almost 53% with the Juruena National Park. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cotriguaçu
Cotriguaçu is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso in the Central-West Region of Brazil. The municipality contains part of the 19,582-square-kilometer (7,561-sq-mi) Juruena National Park, one of the largest conservation units in Brazil. It contains 56% of the 227,817-hectare (562,950-acre) Igarapés do Juruena State Park, created in 2002. The Igarapés do Juruena State Park overlaps by almost 53% with the Juruena National Park. See also *List of municipalities in Mato Grosso This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Mato Grosso (MT), located in the Central-West Region of Brazil. Mato Grosso is divided into 141 municipalities, which are grouped into 22 microregions, which are grouped into 5 mesoregions. ... References Sources * * Municipalities in Mato Grosso {{MatoGrosso-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Park (Brazil)
A state park ( pt, Parque Estadual) in Brazil is a legally defined type of protected area operated by one of the states. Their goal is to preserve important or beautiful natural ecosystems. Public access is allowed subject to regulations defined by the responsible agency. Definition State parks fall under the same regulations as national parks, defined by law 9.985 of July 2000. The park's basic objective is preservation of natural ecosystems of great ecological relevance and scenic beauty. This enables the conduct of scientific research and the development of educational activities and environmental interpretation, recreation in contact with nature and eco tourism. The park is publicly owned, and private areas included in its limits will be expropriated when it is established. Public visitation is subject to the rules and restrictions set out in Unit Management Plan, rules established by the body responsible for its administration, and those provided for by regulation. Scientific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso ( – lit. "Thick Bush") is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 1.9% of the Brazilian GDP. Neighboring states (from west clockwise) are: Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará, Tocantins, Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul. The state is roughly 82.2% of the size of its southwest neighbor, the nation of Bolivia. A state with a flat landscape that alternates between vast ''chapadas'' and plain areas, Mato Grosso contains three main ecosystems: the Cerrado, the Pantanal and the Amazon rainforest. The Chapada dos Guimarães National Park, with caves, grottoes, tracks, and waterfalls, is one of its tourist attractions. The extreme northwest of the state has a small part of the Amazonian forest. The Xingu Indigenous Park and the Araguaia River are in Mato Grosso. Farther south, the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, is the habitat for nearly one thousand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colniza
Colniza is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Demographics Colniza has the highest homicide rate in Brazil with 165 deaths per year per 100 thousand inhabitants. It is the westernmost and largest (by area) municipality of the state. Conservation The municipality of Colniza has a mosaic of conservation units consisting of the Rio Madeirinha Ecological Station, the Rio Roosevelt Ecological Station, the Tucumã State Park and the Guariba-Roosevelt Extractive Reserve. Satellite monitoring showed that Colniza had the highest level of deforestation in Mato Grosso in the six years from 2010 to 2016, with cleared, most of it illegally. Rates of deforestation rose successively in 2013, 2014 and 2015. The Rio Madeirinha Ecological Station is a fully protected environmental unit created in 1997. The Rio Roosevelt Ecological Station is a strictly protected conservation unit created in 1997. The Guariba-Roosevelt Extractive Reserve is a sustainable use unit created i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sucunduri State Park
Sucunduri State Park ( pt, Parque Estadual do Sucunduri) is a state park in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Location The Sucunduri State Park is in the municipality of Apuí, Amazonas. It has an area of . The Juruena River forms the eastern boundary of the park, separating it from the Juruena National Park in the state of Mato Grosso. To the north the Sucunduri State Park adjoins the Bararati Sustainable Development Reserve, Apuí State Forest, the portion of the Juruena National Park that lies in Amazonas and the Jatuarana National Forest. The park adjoins the Sucunduri State Forest to the west and the Igarapés do Juruena State Park in Mato Grosso to the south. History The Sucunduri State Park was created by Amazonas state governor decree 24.810 of 21 January 2005 with the objectives of preserving natural ecosystems of great relevance and scenic beauty, allowing scientific research, education, environmental interpretation, recreation in contact with nature and ecotourism. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sucunduri State Forest
The Sucunduri State Forest ( pt, Floresta Estadual do Sucunduri) is a State forest (Brazil), state forest in the state of Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas, Brazil. Location The Sucunduri State Forest is in the municipality of Apuí, Amazonas. It has an area of . It adjoins the Aripuanã Sustainable Development Reserve to the west, which lies on either side of the Aripuanã River. To the south, the border with the state of Mato Grosso separates the forest from the Igarapés do Juruena State Park and the overlapping Juruena National Park. To the east the forest adjoins the Sucunduri State Park. Part of the northern boundary separates it from the Jatuarana National Forest. History The park was created by Amazonas governor decree 24808 of 20 January 2005 with the objective of promoting sustainable multiple use of forest resources and scientific research with emphasis on methods of using native forest resources in a sustainable way. Conservation The forest is an integral part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aripuanã Sustainable Development Reserve
The Aripuanã Sustainable Development Reserve ( pt, Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Aripuanã) is a sustainable development reserve in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Location The Aripuanã Sustainable Development Reserve is in the Apuí municipality of Amazonas. It has an area of . The reserve lies on either side of the Aripuanã River. It is bounded to the south by the border with the state of Mato Grosso. To the east of the Aripuanã River it adjoins the Igarapés do Juruena State Park in Mato Grosso. To the east it adjoins the Sucunduri State Forest. To the west it adjoins the Aripuanã State Forest. History The Aripuanã Sustainable Development Reserve was created by Amazonas state governor decree 24811 of 21 January 2005. The objectives included preserving nature and the conditions needed to preserve and improve the livelihoods, quality of life and use of natural resources of the traditional populations, and preserving and improving knowledge and environmental ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aripuanã River
Aripuanã River ( pt, Rio Aripuanã) is a river in the Mato Grosso and Amazonas states in north-western Brazil. It is a tributary of the Madeira River in the Amazon Basin. The town of Novo Aripuanã is located on its banks where it merges into the Madeira River. The town of Aripuanã is also on its banks, but on the upper (southern) section of the river. The Aripuanã is a clearwater river. Course In Mato Grosso to the south of the border with Amazonas the river defines the western boundary of the Igarapés do Juruena State Park, created in 2002. To the north of the Amazonas border it flows through the Aripuanã Sustainable Development Reserve, created in 2005. Further north in Amazonas the Trans-Amazonian Highway (BR-230) crosses the Aripuanã. North of the highway the river flows through the Aripuanã National Forest, a sustainable development unit created in 2016 in the last week before the provisional removal of president Dilma Rousseff. It then flows through the Juma S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juruena River
The Juruena River ( pt, Rio Juruena) is a long river in west-central Brazil, in the state of Mato Grosso. Course The Juruena originates in the Parecis plateau. Within Mato Grosso the river defines the eastern boundary of the Igarapés do Juruena State Park, created in 2002. For the last of its lower part the river becomes the border between the states Mato Grosso and Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas. In this section the river forms the boundary between the Sucunduri State Park to the west in Amazonas and the Juruena National Park to the east in Mato Grosso. In the north of this section it forms the boundary between the Bararati Sustainable Development Reserve in Amazonas and the Apiacás Ecological Reserve in Mato Grosso. The Juruena finally joins the Teles Pires river to form the Tapajós river, which is one of the biggest tributaries to the Amazon River. The Juruena River is not fully navigable due to its many waterfalls and rapids. The river is known for the Salto August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juruena National Park
Juruena National Park ( pt, Parque Nacional do Juruena), declared in 2006, is the third largest national park of Brazil. It is located along the Juruena River, in the north of Mato Grosso state and the south of Amazonas state. It forms part of a corridor of protected areas that is meant to contain agricultural expansion into the Amazon rainforest. Location The park covers , mostly in the Amazon biome. It is the third largest in Brazil. It contains parts of the municipalities of Apuí and Maués in Amazonas, and Cotriguaçu, Nova Bandeirantes and Apiacás in Mato Grosso. It adjoins the Sucunduri State Park in the municipality of Apuí. The Igarapés do Juruena State Park to the west overlaps by almost 53% with the Juruena National Park. About 49% of the park is flat plains, 18% gently undulating, 21% undulating, and 10% strongly undulating. 1% is mountainous. Altitudes range from above sea level. The park holds 39 river sub-basins. The largest is that of the São To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazon Biome
The Amazon biome ( pt, Bioma Amazônia) contains the Amazon rainforest, an area of tropical rainforest, and other ecoregions that cover most of the Amazon basin and some adjacent areas to the north and east. The biome contains blackwater and whitewater flooded forest, lowland and montane terra firma forest, bamboo and palm forest, savanna, sandy heath and alpine tundra. Some areas are threatened by deforestation for timber and to make way for pasture or soybean plantations. Location The Amazon biome has an area of . The biome roughly corresponds to the Amazon basin, but excludes areas of the Andes to the west and cerrado (savannah) to the south, and includes lands to the northeast extending to the Atlantic ocean with similar vegetation to the Amazon basin. J. J. Morrone (2006) defines the Amazonian subregion in this broader sense, divided into the biogeographical provinces of Guyana, Humid Guyana, Napo, Imeri, Roraima, Amapá, Várzea, Ucayali, Madeira, Tapajós-Xingu, Pará, Yun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazon Region Protected Areas Program
The Amazon Region Protected Areas Program (ARPA; pt, Programa Áreas Protegidas da Amazônia) is a joint initiative sponsored by government and non-government agencies to expand protection of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Foundation The Amazon Region Protected Areas Program (ARPA) originated in a 1998 promise by the Brazilian government to triple the area of the Amazon that was legally protected. The program was launched in 2003, supported by government agencies, NGOs and major donors. The program is based on a major two-year planning exercise with experts from different disciplines, representatives of the indigenous people and others. This defined a set of priority areas for new parks and reserves throughout the Amazon. Objectives Initial objectives were: * Establish about of new strictly protected conservation units of Brazil * Upgrade about of neglected existing parks to effective standards of management * Establish about of sustainable use reserves supported by local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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