The Cuinarana Marine Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista Marinha Cuinarana) is a coastal marine

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 have the right to traditional extractive practices, such as hunting, fishi ...

in the state of

Pará Pará is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian state) ...

, Brazil.

Location

The Cuinarana Marine Extractive Reserve is in the municipality of

Magalhães Barata Magalhães Barata is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil. The municipality contains the Cuinarana Marine Extractive Reserve, created in 2014. The Cuinarana River originates near the municipal headquarters. It ...

, Pará. It has an area of . The reserve protects the mangroves between the east bank of the

Marapanim River The Marapanim River ( pt, Rio Marapanim) is a river of the state of Pará, Brazil. Course The Marapanim River rises in the municipality of São Francisco do Pará. It flows in a generally north direction, and enters the Atlantic Ocean just past M ...

and the west bank of the

Cuinarana River The Cuinarana River ( pt, Rio Cuinarana) is a river in the state of Pará, Brazil, a tributary of the Marapanim River. Course The river originates near the village of Magalhães Barata, and flows north to the point where it enters the Marapanim R ...

. The Mestre Lucindo Marine Extractive Reserve lies to the west and the

Maracanã Marine Extractive Reserve The Maracanã Marine Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista Marinha do Maracanã) is a coastal marine extractive reserve in the state of Pará, Brazil. It protects an area of mangroves, and allows the local population to make sustainable use ...

lies to the east.

History

The Cuinarana Marine Extractive Reserve was created by federal decree on 10 October 2014. The reserve is one of three created by president

Dilma Rousseff Dilma Vana Rousseff (; born 14 December 1947) is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th president of Brazil, holding the position from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the first w ...

thirteen days before the 2014 presidential elections. The other two are the Mocapajuba and Mestre Lucindo marine extractive reserves, both also in Pará. The Araí-Peroba Marine Extractive Reserve was expanded by . The reserve is administered by the

Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation The Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (Portuguese: ''Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade'', ICMBio) is the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment's administrative arm."Brazilian Federal Law 11.516/2007 (Por ...

(ICMBio). It is classed as

IUCN protected area category IUCN protected area categories, or IUCN protected area management categories, are categories used to classify protected areas in a system developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The enlisting of such areas is part ...

VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources). The objective is to conserve the biodiversity of the ecosystems of mangroves, salt marshes, dunes, wetlands, floodplains, rivers, estuaries and islands; and to protect the livelihoods and culture of the traditional extractive population, and ensure the sustainable use of natural resources of the unit.

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* * * * {{authority control Marine extractive reserves of Brazil Protected areas of Pará 2014 establishments in Brazil Protected areas established in 2014