Iquê Ecological Station ( pt, Estação Ecológica do Iquê) is an ecological station in the

Juína Juína is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso Mato Grosso ( – lit. "Thick Bush") is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is ...

municipality of

Mato Grosso Mato Grosso ( – lit. "Thick Bush") is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 1.9% of the Brazilian GDP. Neighborin ...

, Brazil.

Location

The Ecological Station is in the

Cerrado The ''Cerrado'' (, ) is a vast ecoregion of tropical savanna in eastern Brazil, particularly in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Minas Gerais, and the Federal District. The core areas of the Cerrado biome are ...

biome. It was created on 2 June 1981 and 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 Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), ...

. A reduction of from the initial area was made by agreement with the

Fundação Nacional do Índio Fundação Nacional do Índio (, ''National Indian Foundation'') or FUNAI is a Brazilian governmental protection agency for Amerindian interests and their culture. Original founding as Indian Protection Service In 1910, the Indian Protect ...

in view of the indigenous area of the

Enauenê-Nauê people The Enawenê-Nawê are an indigenous people of Brazil in the Mato Grosso state. They live in a large village near the Iquê River in the Enawenê Nawê Indigenous Land. They practice agriculture, fishing, and gathering and do not hunt or eat ...

. The conservation unit is in the

municipality of Mato Grosso. It would be in the proposed South Amazon Ecotones Ecological Corridor.

Conservation

The Ecological Station is a "strict nature reserve" under

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Ia. It was established to protect a sample of the ecosystem of the transition from the

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to the

. The climate is warm and humid, with average temperatures above . Annual rainfall is about . The terrain is relatively flat. The ecology is under threat from diamond prospecting, which causes deforestation and pollution of the rivers.

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