The Serra Dourada State Park ( pt, Parque Estadual da Serra Dourada) is a

state park State parks are parks or other protected areas managed at the sub-national level within those nations which use "state" as a political subdivision. State parks are typically established by a state to preserve a location on account of its natural ...

in the state of

Goiás Goiás () is a Brazilian state located in the Center-West region. Goiás borders the Federal District and the states of (from north clockwise) Tocantins, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso. The state capital is Goiânia. ...

, Brazil.

Location

The Serra Dourada State Park is in the northwest of Goiás, divided between the municipalities of

Buriti de Goiás Buriti de Goiás is a municipality in eastern Goiás state, Brazil. Location and Communications *Distance to regional center (São Luís de Montes Belos): 58 km. Highway connections are made by state highway BR-069 west from Goiânia, throug ...

Mossâmedes Mossâmedes is a municipality in western Goiás state, Brazil. Location Mossâmedes is located northwest of the state capital, Goiânia in the Anicuns Microregion. It is connected by paved roads with Itaberaí to the north and Anicuns to the sout ...

and the city of Goiás. As of 2014 it had an area of . The park is about from the city of Mossâmedes. It is on top of a mountain range, and can be reached with a four-wheel drive car. Within the park the trails are level and lead to interesting rock formations called "stone cities" surrounded by typical

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 t ...

vegetation.

History

The Serra Dourada State Park was established in 2003. It included 188 properties. A 2008 thesis on sustainable ecotourism in the park found that nothing had been done following the decree creating the park. Although there was large potential, there was no management plan and no environmental education for visitors. In June 2014 it was reported that the State Secretariat for the Environment and Water Resources (Semarh) was studying a proposal by the Union of Rural Producers of the city of Goiás to reduce the size of the park from . According to a consultant for the Federation of Agriculture and Livestock of Goiás, "the park exists only on paper, was created without the studies required by the legislation, and to this day no one knows where it begins and where it ends. The vice-president of the Goiás branch of the Association of Brazilian Geographers (AGB-GO) said the proposal made no sense when efforts were being made to preserve what was left of the

and even to recover degraded areas.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Serra Dourada State Park State parks of Brazil Protected areas established in 2003 2003 establishments in Brazil Protected areas of Goiás