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Manicoré State Forest
The Manicoré State Forest ( pt, Floresta Estadual de Manicoré) is a state forest in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Location The Manicoré State Forest is in the Novo Aripuanã municipality of Amazonas. It has an area of . The Roosevelt River, running north from the state of Mato Grosso, divides the forest into a western and eastern part. To the north both parts of the forest adjoin the Campos Amazônicos National Park. The western part is bounded by the border with the state of Mato Grosso to the south. It adjoins the Rio Roosevelt Ecological Station and the Tucumã State Park in Mato Grosso. The Madeirinha River, a tributary of the Roosevelt River, flows from Mato Grosso in a northeast direction through the western part of the forest. The Roosevelt River separates the western part of the forest from the Guariba State Park, which lies to the east of the river. The eastern part of the forest lies to the north of the Guariba State Park and adjoins the Guariba Extractive R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novo Aripuanã
Novo Aripuanã is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. History The region was originally inhabited by the Toras, Barés, Muras, Urupás, Araras and other indigenous peoples. The first records of European penetration to the Madeira River are from 1637, when Pedro Teixeira travelled from Belém to Quito in Ecuador. The municipality of Novo Aripuanã was created by state law 96 of 19 December 1955 from parts of the municipalities of Borba and Manicoré. It contained the district of Foz do Aripuanã with the sub-districts of Alvorada, Manicorezinho and Itapinima, and the district of Sumaúma with the sub-districts of Alvorada, Manicorezinho and Itapinima. The town of Foz do Aripuanã was elevated to the status of a city, named Novo Aripuanã. The first prefect of the municipality, Wilson Paula de Sá, took office on 10 February 1956. Location Novo Aripuanã has an area of . The population as of 2020 was 26,046. The seat of the municipality is located where t ... [...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] |
Protected Areas Of Amazonas (Brazilian State)
Protection is any measure taken to guard a thing against damage caused by outside forces. Protection can be provided to physical objects, including organisms, to systems, and to intangible things like civil and political rights. Although the mechanisms for providing protection vary widely, the basic meaning of the term remains the same. This is illustrated by an explanation found in a manual on electrical wiring: Some kind of protection is a characteristic of all life, as living things have evolved at least some protective mechanisms to counter damaging environmental phenomena, such as ultraviolet light. Biological membranes such as bark on trees and skin on animals offer protection from various threats, with skin playing a key role in protecting organisms against pathogens and excessive water loss. Additional structures like scales and hair offer further protection from the elements and from predators, with some animals having features such as spines or camouflage servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Forests Of Brazil
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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] |
Apuí State Forest
The Apuí State Forest ( pt, Floresta Estadual do Apuí) is a state forest in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Location The Apuí State Forest is in the municipality of Apuí, Amazonas. It has an area of . It is bounded by the Bararati Sustainable Development Reserve to the east, the Sucunduri State Park to the south and west, and the Juruena National Park to the north. The forest is in the Amazon biome. The mosaic includes flooded and terra firma forests, rocky fields, campina and campinarana. It has great scenic beauty, with waterfalls and rapids. There is great biodiversity, including 13 endemic species of primate. The western part of the mosaic has 850 tree species, 46 mammals, more than 300 birds, 27 reptiles, 30 amphibians and nearly 100 species of fish. History The Apuí State Forest Was created by Amazonas state decree 24.812 of 24 January 2005 with the objectives of promoting sustainable use of multiple forest resources, and scientific research with emphasis on sustaina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aripuanã State Forest
The Aripuanã State Forest ( pt, Floresta Estadual do Aripuanã) is a State forest in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Location The Aripuanã State Forest is in the municipality of Apuí, Amazonas. It has an area of . The forest is bounded by the border with the state of Mato Grosso to the south, the Aripuanã Sustainable Development Reserve to the east and the Guariba Extractive Reserve to the west. The Paxiúba River, a tributary of the Aripuanã River enters the forest from the south and flows across it in a northerly direction. The Paxiubinha River rises in the forest and joins the Paxiúba River on the northern boundary of the forest. History The Aripuanã State Forest was created by Amazonas state governor decree 24807 of 19 January 2005. The objectives are to support multiple sustainable uses of forest resources and scientific research with emphasis of methods of sustainable exploitation of native forests. Conservation The Aripuanã State Forest is an integral part o ... [...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] |
Bararati Sustainable Development Reserve
The ''Bararati Sustainable Development Reserve ( pt, Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Bararati) is a sustainable development reserve in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Location The Bararati Sustainable Development Reserve (RDS) is in the municipality of Apuí, Amazonas. It has an area of . It is on the left (west) bank of the Juruena River, which forms the boundary between Amazonas and Mato Grosso, above the point where that river is joined by the Teles Pires River to form the Tapajós. The Apiacás Ecological Reserve is opposite the Bararati RDS on the east side of the Juruena in Mato Grosso. The southern section of the Juruena National Park, also in Mato Grosso, is to the southeast of the reserve. The Sucunduri State Park is to the south of the reserve, and the Apuí State Forest is to the west of the reserve. The northern section of the Juruena National Park is to the north of the reserve. Environment The mosaic includes terra firma forest, flooded forest, campo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apuí Mosaic
The Apuí Mosaic ( pt, Mosaico do Apuí) is a protected area mosaic in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Location The Apuí Mosaic is divided between the municipalities of Apuí (91.85%) and Novo Aripuanã (8.15%) in the state of Amazonas. It covers an area of . The mosaic is accessible by air to Apuí, by land via the BR-230 Trans-Amazonian Highway or by boat via the Madeira River to the city of Novo Aripuanã and then to the conservation units via the Aripuanã River. The mosaic contains the Guariba and Sucunduri State Parks; Bararati and Aripuanã sustainable development reserves; Guariba Extractive Reserve; and Sucunduri, Aripuanã, Apuí and Manicoré state forests. The mosaic, together with the Juruena and Campos Amazônicos national parks, forms a contiguous block of of protected areas known as the Southern Amazon Ecological Corridor, which covers parts of southern Amazonas, northern Mato Grosso and southwestern Pará. These are areas with strong deforestation pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Forest (Brazil)
A state forest ( pt, Floresta Estadual, FES) in Brazil is a type of sustainable use protected area managed at the state level. The primary purpose is sustainable exploitation of the forest, subject to various limits. These include a requirement to preserve at least 50% of the original forest, to preserve forest along watercourses and on steep slopes, and so on. Definition The concept of the State Forest originated with the 1934 Forest Code. It is equivalent to a national forest, but is administered at the state level. It is an area with forest cover of predominantly native species and has the basic objective of the sustainable multiple use of forest resources and scientific research, with emphasis on methods for sustainable exploitation of native forests. The forest is publicly owned and any private lands in its boundaries are expropriated when it is formed. Indigenous populations may remain in the forest. Public visits are allowed, and research is encouraged, subject to the rules ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
