The Fazenda Pacatuba Private Natural Heritage Reserve ( pt, Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural Fazenda Pacatuba) is a
private natural heritage reserve in the state of
Paraíba
Paraíba ( Tupi: ''pa'ra a'íba''; ) is a state of Brazil. It is located in the Brazilian Northeast, and it is bordered by Rio Grande do Norte to the north, Ceará to the west, Pernambuco to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Paraíba ...
, Brazil. It protects a population of
red-handed howler monkeys.
Location
The Fazenda Pacatuba Private Natural Heritage Reserve in the municipality of
Sapé, Paraíba
Sapé is a municipality in the state of Paraíba in the Northeast Region of Brazil.
The municipality contains the Fazenda Pacatuba Private Natural Heritage Reserve, which protects a population of red-handed howler monkeys.
See also
*List of muni ...
in the Mata Paraibana mesoregion.
It has an area of , part of the larger Fazenda Pacatuba.
The property belongs to the Japungú distillery.
The reserve is from the municipal seat.
History
The Fazenda Pacatuba Private Natural Heritage Reserve was created by decree 110-N of 29 December 1995.
Its purpose was to protect the
red-handed howler (''Alouatta belzebul''), a primate that weighs about , lives in the trees and eats fruit and leaves.
The primate is endemic to Brazil and has two unconnected populations, one in the eastern Amazon region and the other in the Atlantic Forest north of the
São Francisco River
The São Francisco River (, ) is a large river in Brazil. With a length of , it is the longest river that runs entirely in Brazilian territory, and the fourth longest in South America and overall in Brazil (after the Amazon, the Paraná and t ...
.
Environment
The reserve is in the
Paraiba River basin.
Soil is
Tertiary
Tertiary ( ) is a widely used but obsolete term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.6 million years ago.
The period began with the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, at the start ...
sediments of sand or sand-clay, with low fertility.
Altitudes are .
The climate is northeast coast tropical, dominated by humid air masses from the Atlantic Ocean.
Average annual rainfall is , falling mainly in the late summer and early winter.
The reserve contains one of the few remaining fragments 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 ...
in the state of Paraíba.
Vegetation is mainly seasonal semi-deciduous forest, with two types of formation.
One is drier, wooded savanna and the other is more humid, with emergent trees up to and trunks up to in circumference, carrying abundant
epiphyte
An epiphyte is an organism that grows on the surface of a plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it. The plants on which epiphytes grow are called phoroph ...
s.
A study published in 2013 reported 24 species of ferns in 18 genera.
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Private natural heritage reserves of Brazil
Protected areas established in 1995
1995 establishments in Brazil
Protected areas of Paraíba