The Ilha Grande National Park (''Parque Nacional de Ilha Grande'') is located on the border between
Paraná and
Mato Grosso do Sul states in
Brazil
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. The park was created in 1997 to protect the biological diversity of the upper
Parana River area.
History
The Ilha Grande National Park was created by decree without number issued by the Presidency of the Republic on 30 September 1997. Currently the park administration rests with 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).
Characterization area
The park, with its in area, encompasses all islands and islets from the Itaipu reservoir and river mouth Piquiri to the mouth of rivers and Amambai Ivaí on the Parana River, among which are the major islands Grande, Peruzzi, Peacock and Bandeirantes. The park area also includes wetlands and flood plains, situated on the banks of the Parana river, lake and lagoon waters and its surroundings and the Seawall Macaws. The river water intended for navigation are not part of the National Park of Ilha Grande.
Ilha Grande National Park is adjacent to 9 municipalities:
Guaíra,
Altônia,
São Jorge do Patrocínio,
Alto Paraíso and
Icaraíma in the state of Paraná; and
Mundo Novo,
Eldorado
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,
Itaquirai, and
Naviraí
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in the state of
Mato Grosso do Sul.
Ilha Grande protects archaeological sites of great importance. It is known that the site was once inhabited by Guarani Indians and Xetás.
Tourism and attractions
The park is open free to the public for tours every day of the week. The park, in many places, has little beaches, leisure place where you can swim to the banks of the Paraná River. Another option is the boat ride on the Parana River, passing through various localities of Ilha Grande.
Wildlife and vegetation
Ilha Grande is in a transition between cerrado (characteristic of the Pantanal) and seasonal Forest. Already fauna has several endemic species and/or endangered. Among the terrestrial fauna species were recorded as the marsh deer (Blastocelus dichotomus), the alligator-the-crop-yellow (Caiman Latorostris), the jaguar (Panthera onca), tapir (Tapirus terestris) and the giant anteater flag (Myrmecophata trydoctyla). Aquatic fauna include: painted (Pseudoplatystoma corruscans) jaú (Paulicea luetkeni), armed (Pterodoras granular), gold (Salminus maxillosus), pacu (piractus mesopotamicus) and avifauna is cited: jabiru (Jabiru mycteria), jaó (Cryptrellus undulatus), curassow (Crax fasciolata), American spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) and Jacana (Jacana jacana).
Fishing regulations were published on 2 October 2008, covering conservation areas and their buffer zones in the
Paraná River basin.
They were the
Morro do Diabo State Park,
Rio do Peixe State Park,
Aguapeí State Park,
Mico Leão Preto Ecological Station,
Ivinhema State Park, Ilha Grande National Park,
Caiuá Ecological Station and
Iguaçu National Park
Iguaçu National Park () is a national park in Paraná State, Brazil. It comprises a total area of and a length of about , of which are natural borders by bodies of water and the Argentine and Brazilian sides together comprise around . Iguaçu ...
.
The
Santa Maria Ecological Corridor
The Santa Maria Ecological Corridor ( pt, Corredor Ecológico de Santa Maria) is an ecological corridor in the state of Paraná, Brazil.
Location
The Santa Maria Ecological Corridor crosses the municipalities of Santa Terezinha de Itaipu and S ...
connects the
Iguaçu National Park
Iguaçu National Park () is a national park in Paraná State, Brazil. It comprises a total area of and a length of about , of which are natural borders by bodies of water and the Argentine and Brazilian sides together comprise around . Iguaçu ...
with the protected margins of
Lake Itaipu, and via these margins with the Ilha Grande National Park.
The park would be part of the proposed
Trinational Biodiversity Corridor
The Trinational Biodiversity Corridor ( pt, Corredor Trinacional de Biodiversidade) is a proposed ecological corridor that would link protected areas in the Alto Paraná Atlantic forests ecoregion in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.
History
The p ...
, which aims to provide forest connections between conservation units in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina in the Upper Paraná ecoregion.
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National parks of Brazil
Protected areas of Paraná (state)
Protected areas of Mato Grosso do Sul
Ramsar sites in Brazil
Pantanal