The Boguaçu State Park ( pt, Parque Estadual do Boguaçu) is a

state park State parks are parks or other protected areas managed at the sub-national level within those nations which use "state" as a political subdivision. State parks are typically established by a state to preserve a location on account of its natural ...

in the state of Paraná, Brazil.

Location

The Boguaçu State Park is in the municipality of

Guaratuba Guaratuba is a city in the state of Paraná, Brazil. Founded on 1765, it is considered to be one of the most beautiful beaches of Paraná. History The King of Portugal, Dom Jose I, worried about possible foreign raids on the Brazilian coas ...

, Paraná, and has an area of . The Boguaçu River is affected by urban pressure from Guaratuba, with landfill in the river's estuary within the state park on an area where the city disposed of its garbage for twenty years, with no control over infiltration into the ground.

History

The Boguaçu State Park was created by decree 4.056 of governor

Jaime Lerner Jaime Lerner (17 December 1937 – 27 May 2021) was a Brazilian politician. He was the governor of the state of Paraná, in southern Brazil. He is renowned as an architect and urban planner, having been mayor of Curitiba, capital of Paraná, th ...

on 26 February 1998 with an area of with the objective of preserving typical

mangrove A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows in coastal saline water, saline or brackish water. The term is also used for tropical coastal vegetation consisting of such species. Mangroves are taxonomically diverse, as a result of convergent evoluti ...

and

restinga Restingas () are a distinct type of coastal tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest in eastern Brazil. They form on sandy, acidic, and nutrient-poor soils, and are characterized by medium-sized trees and shrubs adapted to the drier and nut ...

ecosystems, archaeological and prehistoric heritage and particularly the

Sambaquis A midden (also kitchen midden or shell heap) is an old landfill, dump for domestic waste which may consist of animal bone, feces, human excrement, botanical material, mollusc shells, potsherds, Lithic flake, lithics (especially debitage), an ...

. The park is part of the

Guaratuba Environmental Protection Area The Guaratuba Environmental Protection Area ( pt, Área de Proteção Ambiental de Guaratuba) is an environmental protection area in the state of Paraná, Brazil. Location The Guaratuba Environmental Protection Area (APA) is divided between the ...

, which also includes the Saint-Hilaire/Lange National Park. It is part of the larger

Lagamar mosaic The Lagamar Mosaic ( pt, Mosaico do Lagamar is a Protected area mosaic (Brazil), protected area mosaic that includes a number of conservation units in the states of São Paulo (state), São Paulo and Paraná (state), Paraná, Brazil. History The ...

of conservation units:

Notes

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Boguacu State Park State parks of Brazil Protected areas of Paraná (state) 1998 establishments in Brazil