The Camaquã State Park pt, Parque Estadual do Camaquã 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

Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ...

, Brazil.

Location

The Camaquã State Park is in the municipalities of

Camaquã Camaquã is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The municipality contains part of the Camaquã State Park, which was created in 1975. See also * List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul This is a list of the municipal ...

and

São Lourenço do Sul São Lourenço do Sul is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The municipality had 43,111 inhabitants in the last Census (2010). Its population in 2020 was estimated in 43,540 inhabitants. It is located at the west bank of ...

, Rio Grande do Sul. It has an area of . The park is in the transition between the

pampas The Pampas (from the qu, pampa, meaning "plain") are fertile South American low grasslands that cover more than and include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, and Córdoba; all of Uruguay; and Brazil ...

and

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 ...

biomes, mostly in the latter. It was created to protect the wetlands of the

Camaquã River The Camaquã River () is a river of Rio Grande do Sul state in southern Brazil. The delta of the river, where it empties into the Lagoa dos Patos, is protected by the Camaquã State Park, created in 1975. See also *List of rivers of Rio Grande ...

lagoon delta, including the Banhado do Caipira, Rincão do Escuro and many islands. It covers the banks of the

Lagoa dos Patos Lagoa dos Patos (, , ; English: ''Ducks' Lagoon'') is the largest lagoon in Brazil and the largest coastal lagoon in South America. It is located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil. It covers an area of , is long and has a maximu ...

from the Banhado do Caipira to the pontal, and covers the Camaquã river valley up to the settlement of Pacheca.

History

The Camaquã State Park was created by decree 23.798 of 12 March 1975. As of 2016 the park did not have a management plan and was not open for visitors. The land had not been surveyed, and ownership had not been regularized.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Camaqua State Park State parks of Brazil Protected areas established in 1975 1975 establishments in Brazil Protected areas of Rio Grande do Sul