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Serra Do Mar Environmental Protection Area
The Serra do Mar Environmental Protection Area ( pt, Área de Proteção Ambiental Serra do Mar) is an environmental protection area in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It controls land use in an extensive area of Atlantic Forest in the Serra do Mar range. Location The Serra do Mar Environmental Protection Area is divided between the municipalities of Capão Bonito (5.23%), Eldorado (18.97%), Guapiara (0.08%), Ibiúna (0.48%), Iporanga (5.63%), Juquiá (16.76%), Juquitiba (2.4%), Miracatu (16.55%), Pedro de Toledo (2.43%), Ribeirão Grande (2.51%), Sete Barras (15.59%) and Tapiraí (13.38%) in the state of São Paulo. It has an area of . It is in the south of the state, and covers part of the Ribeira de Iguape River basin. It provides the main link between the Serra do Mar State Park and the other conservation units in the Vale do Ribeira. The APA is part of the Atlantic Forest Biosphere Reserve, recognized by UNESCO as the first such reserve in Brazil and one of the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sete Barras
Sete Barras is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 12,780 (2020 est.) in an area of 1063 km². The elevation is 30 m. The municipality contains part of the Carlos Botelho State Park, created in 1982. It contains part of the Serra do Mar Environmental Protection Area, created in 1984. It also contains part of the Intervales State Park The Intervales State Park ( pt, Parque Estadual Intervales) is a State park (Brazil), state park in the state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Brazil. It protects an area of Atlantic Forest, including parts of the Serra de Paranapiacaba and the R ..., created in 1995. References Municipalities in São Paulo (state) {{SaoPauloState-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serra Do Mar State Park
The Serra do Mar State Park ( pt, Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar) is a state park in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It covers of the Serra do Mar mountain range, and is one of the largest remaining areas of continuous Atlantic Forest. The State Park stretches from the border of Rio de Janeiro to Itariri in the southern part of São Paulo. Location The Serra do Mar State Park was created in 1977 when the BR-101 coastal highway was built, and expanded in 2010. With an area of in 25 municipalities it is the largest Atlantic Forest protected area in Brazil. The park contains some traditional communities of ''quilombolas'', Amerindians, ''caipiras'' and ''caiçaras''. It connects the Serra do Mar forests of Rio de Janeiro to the Vale do Ribeira and Paraná. The escarpments of the park dominate the coast of São Paulo. It is part of the Bocaina Mosaic, created in 2006. Conservation The Serra do Mar State Park is managed by the Forestry Foundation of São Paulo, which is linked t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xitué Ecological Station
The Xitué Ecological Station ( pt, Estação Ecológica Xitué) is an ecological station in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It protects a mountainous area of Atlantic Forest. Location The Xitué Ecological Station (ESEC) is in the Serra de Paranapiacaba in the municipality of Ribeirão Grande in the southeast São Paulo state. It has an area of about . The station in on the Guapiara Plateau, with altitudes that range from . It adjoins the central section of the Intervales State Park to the south. To the northwest the ESEC adjoins the Hotel Paraíso Ecolodge, a sustainable ecotourism enterprise. It lies in the largest remnant of Atlantic Forest in the state, part of the Paranapiacaba ecological continuum. It is accessed through the Intervales State Park headquarters, about from the state capital. History The Xitué Ecological Station was created by state decree 26.890 of 1987, with the objective of ensuring full protection of flora, fauna and natural beauty, as well as suppo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Botelho State Park
The Carlos Botelho State Park ( pt, Parque Estadual Carlos Botelho) is a state park is the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It protects a mountainous area of Atlantic Forest. The park contains more than half of Brazil's remaining population of endangered southern muriqui, the largest primate in the Americas other than man. Location The Carlos Botelho State Park has its headquarter is São Miguel Arcanjo, São Paulo. It has an area of . The surrounding land includes private landholdings and three private natural heritage reserves, Zizo Park, Rio Taquaral Park and Onça Parda (Cougar) Park. The regional economy is based on agriculture, particularly banana farming in the south, and ecotourism. The park's headquarters is in the Planalto region of the Upper Paranapanema River basin, in the municipalities of São Miguel Arcanjo and Capão Bonito. The Sete Barras center is in the Vale do Ribeira region, in the basin of the Ribeira de Iguape River, in the municipality of Sete Barras. Histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paranapiacaba Conservation Units Mosaic
The Paranapiacaba Conservation Units Mosaic ( pt, Mosaico de Unidades de Conservação do Paranapiacaba) is a protected area mosaic in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It is administered by the state, and protects a large area of Atlantic Forest. It is associated with the Paranapiacaba Ecological Corridor of the Atlantic Forest Biosphere Reserve. Formation In 1995 the area covered by Paranapiacaba Mosaic was declared part of the Atlantic Forest Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO, and in 2000 it was declared a natural World Heritage Site. The TCCA/FF Paranapiacaba Mosaic Project was approved by the Environmental Compensation Chamber and launched in September 2011 to define the scope, schedule, synergies and integrated management of the mosaic. During the June 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) the Nascentes do Paranapanema State Park was created with of Atlantic Forest covering the sources of the Paranapanema River. The new park and other units would m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quilombos Do Médio Ribeira Environmental Protection Area
The Quilombos do Médio Ribeira Environmental Protection Area ( pt, Área de Proteção Ambiental dos Quilombos do Médio Ribeira) is an environmental protection area in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It supports sustainable development of communities of quilombolas, descendants of African slaves. Location The Quilombos do Médio Ribeira Environmental Protection Area (APA) is divided between the municipalities of Barra do Turvo (2.69%), Eldorado (40.84%) and Iporanga (56.47%) in the state of São Paulo. It has an area of . The APA forms part of the Serra de Paranapiacaba Mosaic, which has over and contains the largest remaining area of Atlantic Forest in Brazil. Other conservation units in the mosaic are the Carlos Botelho State Park, Alto Ribeira Tourist State Park, Nascentes do Paranapanema State Park, Caverna do Diabo State Park, Xitué Ecological Station, Serra do Mar Environmental Protection Area and Intervales State Park. History The quilombolas of the Ribeira Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacupiranga Mosaic
The Jacupiranga Mosaic ( pt, Mosaico do Jacupiranga) is a protected area mosaic of 14 units, located in the Atlantic Forest biome within the state of São Paulo of southeastern Brazil. It is centered on the former Jacupiranga State Park. History The Jacupiranga Mosaic was created by state law 12.810 of 21 February 2008 with a total area of , including 14 conservation units and 2 planned Private natural heritage reserves. It was the fifth mosaic to be created in Brazil, and was intended to reconcile sustainable economic development with conservation objectives. The Jacupiranga State Park, which had an area of , was expanded to and subdivided into three state parks, Caverna do Diabo, Rio Turvo and Lagamar de Cananéia. The law created five sustainable development reserves and one extractive reserve An extractive reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista or RESEX) is a type of sustainable use protected area in Brazil. The land is publicly owned, but the people who live there hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intervales State Park
The Intervales State Park ( pt, Parque Estadual Intervales) is a state park in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It protects an area of Atlantic Forest, including parts of the Serra de Paranapiacaba and the Ribeira de Iguape and Paranapanema river basins. Location The Intervales State Park has its headquarters in the municipality of Ribeirão Grande, São Paulo. It includes parts of the municipalities of Ribeirão Grande: , Guapiara: , Sete Barras: , Iporanga: and Eldorado: . It has a total area of . The park forms the central region of the Serra de Paranapiacaba Mosaic, which has over and contains the largest remaining area of Atlantic Forest in Brazil. Other conservation units in the mosaic are the Carlos Botelho State Park, Alto Ribeira Tourist State Park, Nascentes do Paranapanema State Park, Caverna do Diabo State Park, Xitué Ecological Station, Serra do Mar Environmental Protection Area and Quilombos do Médio Ribeira Environmental Protection Area. History The Inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quilombola
A ''quilombola'' () is an Afro-Brazilian resident of ''quilombo'' settlements first established by escaped slaves in Brazil. They are the descendants of Slavery in Brazil, Afro-Brazilian slaves who escaped from slave plantations that existed in Brazil until Abolitionism, abolition in 1888. The most famous ''quilombola'' was Zumbi and the most famous ''quilombo'' was Palmares (quilombo), Palmares. Many ''quilombolas'' live in poverty. History In the 16th century, slavery was becoming common across the Americas, particularly in Brazil. Africans were kidnapped and shipped across the Atlantic via the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. In Brazil, most worked on sugar plantations and mines, and were brutally tortured. Some slaves were able to escape. According to oral tradition, among them was Aqualtune, a former Angolan princess and general enslaved during a Congolese war. Shortly after reaching Brazil, the pregnant Aqualtune escaped with some of her soldiers and fled to the Serra da Bari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quilombo
A ''quilombo'' (; from the Kimbundu word , ) is a Brazilian hinterland settlement founded by people of African origin, and others sometimes called Carabali. Most of the inhabitants of quilombos, called quilombolas, were maroons, a term for escaped slaves. Documentation about refugee slave communities typically uses the term mocambo for settlements, which is an Ambundu word meaning "war camp". A mocambo is typically much smaller than a quilombo. The term quilombo was not used until the 1670s, and then primarily in the more southerly parts of Brazil. In the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America, such villages or camps were called . Its inhabitants are . They spoke various Spanish-African-based creole languages such as Palenquero. Quilombos are classified as one of the three basic forms of active resistance by enslaved Africans. They also regularly attempted to seize power and conducted armed insurrections at plantations to gain amelioration of conditions. Typically, q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacupiranga State Park
The Jacupiranga State Park ( pt, Parque Estadual de Jacupiranga) was a state park in São Paulo, Brazil. It covered a large, mountainous region that included untouched Atlantic Forest and land occupied by traditional communities. When the park was created in 1969 the residents could no longer legally practice sustainable farming and extraction of forest resources, leading to land use conflicts, which mounted as the BR-116 highway opened the park to squatters from elsewhere. Eventually, in 2008 the park was combined with surrounding territory and broken up into three smaller state parks and various other units in which sustainable development was allowed. Location The Jacupiranga State Park was divided between the municipalities of Barra do Turvo, Cajati, Cananéia, Eldorado, Iporanga and Jacupiranga, in the Vale do Ribeira region of the, south of the State of São Paulo. Most of the park was in the Ribeira de Iguape River basin. It had an area of about . Altitudes ranged from , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alto Ribeira Tourist State Park
The Alto Ribeira Touristic State Park ( pt, Parque Estadual Turístico do Alto Ribeira) is a state park is the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It protects a mountainous area of Atlantic Forest and is known for its many caves. Location The Alto Ribeira Touristic State Park is divided between the municipalities of Apiaí and Iporanga in the state of São Paulo, lying away from the city of São Paulo. It has over 350 caves, many waterfalls, trails and archaeological and paleontological sites. There are traditional and ''quilombola'' communities in the park. There are four visitor centers and support for enforcement activities and research in order to safeguard and protect the rich natural heritage of the upper Ribeira region, represented by the important biodiversity of the remnants of the Atlantic Forest and its paleontological, archaeological, and historical sites. It is home to one of the most important speleological provinces in Brazil with more than 300 caves registered by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
