Tinguá Biological Reserve ( pt, Reserva Biológica do Tinguá) is a biological reserve in the Serra do Tinguá mountains, Rio de Janeiro state, eastern

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

Location

The reserve, which covers , was created on 23 May 1989. 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 ...

. The reserve lies in the municipalities of Duque de Caxias, Nova Iguaçu and

Petrópolis Petrópolis (; ), also known as The Imperial City, is a municipality in the Southeast Region of Brazil. It is located in the state of Rio de Janeiro, northeast of the city of Rio de Janeiro. According to the 2010 National Brazilian Census, Petr ...

Rio de Janeiro State Rio de Janeiro () is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil. It has the second largest economy of Brazil, with the largest being that of the state of São Paulo. The state, which has 8.2% of the Brazilian population, is responsible for 9.2% of ...

. It adjoins the

Jaceruba Environmental Protection Area The Jaceruba Environmental Protection Area ( pt, Área de Proteção Ambiental Jaceruba, formerly the Rio São Pedro de Jaceruba Environmental Protection Area) is a municipal environmental protection area in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. L ...

, created in 2002, to the west. The biome is Atlantic Forest and includes submontane, montane and upper montane rain forest. The reserve is in the Central Rio de Janeiro Atlantic Forest Mosaic, created in 2006.

Conservation

The Biological Reserve is 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 par ...

Ia. The purpose is to fully protect the biota and other natural attributes without direct human interference. Protected species in the reserve include

southern muriqui The southern muriqui (''Brachyteles arachnoides'') is a muriqui (woolly spider monkey) species endemic to Brazil. Taxonomy Taxonomy of muriquis is controversial because some scientists believe that they are a monotypic genus while others favo ...

(brachyteles arachnoides),

red myotis The red myotis (''Myotis ruber'') is a vesper bat species found in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. References

Mouse-eared bats Mammals described in 1806 Bats of South America Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire {{Ve ...

(myotis ruber),

Recife broad-nosed bat The Recife broad-nosed bat (''Platyrrhinus recifinus''), is a species of bat from South America. It is named for the city of Recife in Brazil, where it was first recorded by Oldfield Thomas in 1901. Previously considered "Vulnerable", the Recif ...

(platyrrhinus recifinus), ocelot (leopardus pardalis mitis), cougar (puma concolor capricornensis), the frog species thoropa petropolitana and thoropa lutzi,

Chaco eagle The Chaco eagle (''Buteogallus coronatus'') or crowned solitary eagle, is an endangered bird of prey from eastern and central South America. Typically it is known simply as the crowned eagle which leads to potential confusion with the African '' ...

(Harpyhaliaetus coronatus), grey-winged cotinga (tijuca condita),

Salvadori's antwren Salvadori's antwren (''Myrmotherula minor'') is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is endemic to Brazil. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss Habitat destruct ...

(myrmotherula minor),

white-necked hawk The white-necked hawk (''Buteogallus lacernulatus'') is a Vulnerable species of bird of prey in subfamily Accipitrinae, the "true" hawks, of family Accipitridae. It is endemic to Brazil.Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claram ...

(leucopternis lacernulatus) and

white-eared parakeet The white-eared parakeet or maroon-faced parakeet (''Pyrrhura leucotis'') is a small parrot belonging to the genus ''Pyrrhura''. As here defined, it is endemic to Atlantic Forest in eastern Brazil. The Venezuelan, grey-breasted and Pfrimer's ...

(pyrrhura leucotis).

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tingua Biological Reserve Biological reserves of Brazil Protected areas of the Atlantic Forest Protected areas of Rio de Janeiro (state) Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro Petrópolis Protected areas established in 1989 1989 establishments in Brazil