The Bananal Ecological Station ( pt, Estação Ecológica de Bananal) is an
Ecological station in the state of
São Paulo
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...
, Brazil.
Location
The Bananal Ecological Station is in the municipality of
Bananal, São Paulo
Município da Estância Turística de Bananal is a city in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte. The population is 10,993 (2020 est.) in an area of .
It borders three cities ...
.
It has an area of .
It is in a region of the Serra da Bocaina with sharp relief.
Altitudes range from .
It is part of the
Bocaina Mosaic
The Bocaina Mosaic ( pt, Mosaico Bocaina) is a protected area mosaic on the border between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil. It provides coordinated management for a group of 10 federal, state and municipal conservation units covering an are ...
, created in 2006.
Visitors must obtain permission from the station's management, who will assign an employee as a guide.
There is a short trail to the last fall of the Sete Quedas waterfalls, a scenic attraction.
Environment
The climate is humid subtropical, with three dry months in the year.
Average annual rainfall is .
Average annual temperature is .
Maximum average temperature in and minimum average temperature is .
The ecological station contains remnants of
Atlantic Forest
The Atlantic Forest ( pt, Mata Atlântica) is a South American forest that extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state in the northeast to Rio Grande do Sul state in the south and inland as far as Paraguay and th ...
.
Vegetation includes cloud forest and dense montane and submontane rainforest.
Two new species of
bromeliad
The Bromeliaceae (the bromeliads) are a family of monocot flowering plants of about 80 genera and 3700 known species, native mainly to the tropical Americas, with several species found in the American subtropics and one in tropical west Africa, ...
have only been found in the station, ''
Neoregelia pontuali
''Neoregelia'' is a genus of epiphytic flowering plants in the family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae, native to South American rainforests. The genus name is for Eduard August von Regel, Director of St. Petersburg Botanic Gardens in Russ ...
'' and ''
Wittrockia corallina
''Wittrockia'' is a genus of plants in the family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.
The genus name is for Veit Brecher Wittrock, a Swedish botanist (1839-1914).Bromeliad Society International read on line/ref>
These plants are native to Ce ...
''.
History
The Bananal State Forest Reserve was created by state decree 43.193 of 3 April 1964 to conserve the forest and preserve the flora and fauna.
On 12 March 1987 governor
André Franco Montoro
André Franco Montoro (; 14 July 1916 – 16 July 1999) was a Brazilian politician and lawyer. He was born in São Paulo as the son of André de Blois Montoro and Tomásia Alijostes. He was a senator and governor of São Paulo. He was a member of ...
altered the category of the reserve to create the Bananal Ecological Station.
The station is funded in partnership between the São Paulo secretariat of the environment and the German
KfW
The KfW, which together with its subsidiaries DEG, KfW IPEX-Bank and FuB forms the KfW Bankengruppe ("banking group"), is a German state-owned investment bank, investment and Development finance institution, development bank, based in Frankfurt ...
bank.
Notes
Sources
*
*
*
*
{{authority control
Ecological stations of Brazil
Protected areas of São Paulo (state)
1987 establishments in Brazil
Protected areas established in 1987
Protected areas of the Atlantic Forest