The Floresta do Jacarandá Environmental Protection Area ( pt, Área de Proteção Ambiental Floresta do Jacarandá) was an environmental protection area in the state of

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, Brazil.

Location

The Floresta do Jacarandá Environmental Protection Area (APA) was in the municipality of

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, Rio de Janeiro. It had an area of . The area contains Atlantic Forest and sources of the Teresópolis water supply. A study published in 2001 noted that human activity had placed pressure on the environment in the W-NW of the reserve beside a slum along the

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highway, and in the north where agricultural and tourist activities had expanded. The water was contaminated by

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History

The Floresta do Jacarandá Environmental Protection Area was created by state decree 8.280 of 23 July 1985 as an Area of Environmental Protection and Permanent Preservation, with its forests, water sources and other forms of vegetation located in the place called Floresta do Jacarandá. The APA was included in the

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, created in 2006. On 31 October 2013 state law 6.573 extinguished the

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and the Jacarandá State Environmental Protection Area, and modified the Bacia dos Frades Environmental Protection Area and the

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Floresta do Jacaranda Environmental Protection Area Environmental protection areas of Brazil Protected areas of Rio de Janeiro (state) 1985 establishments in Brazil 2013 disestablishments in Brazil Protected areas established in 1985