The Guaricana National Park ( pt, Parque Nacional Guaricana) is a

national park A national park is a nature park, natural park in use for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state dec ...

in the state of Paraná, Brazil. It protects a mountainous area holding a remnant of

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Location

The Guaricana National Park covers parts of the municipalities 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 ...

(67.49% of the park),

Morretes Morretes is a small historic city of the Brazilian state of Paraná. It has a population of around 16,000 people. It is famous for its restaurants, especially a traditional dish called ''barreado''. It is also the home of many historical monumen ...

(19.47%) and

São José dos Pinhais São José dos Pinhais () is a municipality in the state of Paraná in Brazil. It is a part of the Metropolitan Region of Curitiba. Etymology With geographical and religious origins the city's name is a homage to São José (Saint Joseph) and ...

(13.04%) in the state of Paraná. It is west of the Saint-Hilaire/Lange National Park, south of highway

BR-277 BR-277 is a federal highway of Brazil, across the state of Paraná, between the town of Paranaguá and Foz do Iguaçu. Economic importance The highway has high economic importance for Brazil and even for Paraguay, as it connects the Brazil-P ...

, and east of highway BR-376. Guaratuba Bay is to the south east. It has an area of . The park lies in the mountains that rise to the east of the interior plateau of Curitiba. The range rises up to above the level of the plateau, with altitudes from above sea level. The terrain is mountainous, cut by deep valleys. The whole of the park is in the littoral basin of Paraná, mainly the catchments of the

Cubatão Cubatão is a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, 12 kilometers away from Santos seaport, the largest in Latin America. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Baixada Santista. The population is 131,626 (2020 est.) in an area of 142.88 ...

and Cubatãozinho rivers. A small part of the northeast holds the basins of the Pinto and Sagrado rivers, which flow north into Paranaguá Bay. Average annual rainfall is . Temperatures range from with an average of . The park is in the

biome. The park is in the contact zone between mixed rainforest with Araucaria and dense Atlantic rainforest at the lower levels. There is sparser vegetation and alpine meadows on the higher parts of the Canavieiras and Igreja ranges.

History

The Guaricana National Park was created by presidential decree on 13 October 2014. It 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

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II (national park). The purpose is to ensure preservation of remnants of dense rain forest and mixed deciduous forest including flora, fauna, water and geological resources, and associated natural landscapes. The decree of 13 October 2014 also established the

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and the

Nascentes Geraizeiras Sustainable Development Reserve The Nascentes Geraizeiras Sustainable Development Reserve ( pt, Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Nascentes Geraizeiras is a sustainable development reserve in the Cerrado ecoregion within the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Location The Nas ...

, both in Minas Gerais, and added over to the existing

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in Amazonas.

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* * * * {{authority control 2014 establishments in Brazil National parks of Brazil Protected areas of Paraná (state) Protected areas of the Atlantic Forest