Lapinha Biological Reserve ( pt, Reserva Biológica Lapinha) is a small State Biological Reserve in the municipality of

Leopoldina, Minas Gerais Leopoldina is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. , it has a population of 52,640. It is situated in the southeastern Zona da Mata mesoregion of the state. The municipality contains the Lapinha Biological Reserve, a strict ...

, Brazil.

History

The reserve, which covers in the municipality of

, was created on 23 September 1974.

Status

The climate is tropical, with average temperatures of about and average rainfall of . The municipality was once covered in semi-deciduous forest of the

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 ...

biome, but has been severely deforested. As of 2009 the State Biological Reserve was a "strict nature reserve" under

IUCN protected area category IUCN protected area categories, or IUCN protected area management categories, are categories used to classify protected areas in a system developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The enlisting of such areas is part ...

Ia.

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* * * {{Biological reserve (Brazil) 1974 establishments in Brazil Biological reserves of Brazil Protected areas of Minas Gerais Protected areas established in 1974 Protected areas of the Atlantic Forest