Boa Nova National Park ( pt, Parque Nacional de Boa Nova) is a

national park A national park is a natural park in use for conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual ...

in the state of

Bahia Bahia ( , , ; meaning "bay") is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Rio de Janeiro) and the 5th-larges ...

, Brazil.

Location

The Boa Nova National Park covers parts of the municipalities of Boa Nova, Dário Meira and Manoel Vitorino in Bahia. The park has an area of . The terrain is rugged with altitudes from above sea level. The park drains into the Uruba River, a tributary of the

Gongogi River The Gongogi River (Portuguese: Rio Gongoji) is a river of Bahia state in eastern Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. A ...

, which in turn is a tributary of the

de Contas River The De Contas River (Portuguese: Rio de Contas) is a river of Bahia state in eastern Brazil. In Portuguese, it is sometimes erroneously called "''Rio das Contas''". It is the main river of the hydrographic basin named after him. Its source is in ...

. The park is in 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. Average annual rainfall is . Temperatures range from with an average of . Vegetation includes

caatinga Caatinga (, ) is a type of semi-arid tropical vegetation, and an ecoregion characterized by this vegetation in interior northeastern Brazil. The name "Caatinga" is a Tupi word meaning "white forest" or "white vegetation" (''caa'' = forest, v ...

, semi-deciduous submontane forest, montane rainforest and semi-deciduous lowland forest. The region is well known for the many species of birds, with 437 recorded to date, which attract many foreign birdwatchers. Endemic bird species include the endangered or threatened slender antbird (''Rhopornis ardesiacus''), Bahia spinetail (''Synallaxis whitneyi'') and Bahia tyrannulet (''Phylloscartes beckeri'').

Administration

The Boa Nova National Park was created by decree on 11 June 2010. 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 (Po ...

. The adjoining Boa Nova Wildlife Refuge was created in the same decree. The park became part of the

Central Atlantic Forest Ecological Corridor The Central Atlantic Forest Ecological Corridor ( pt, Corredor Central da Mata Atlântica is an ecological corridor in the states of Espírito Santo and Bahia, Brazil. It promotes improvements to connectivity between fragments of Atlantic Forest ...

, created in 2002. It is classed as classed as

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 ...

II. The purpose is to fully protect and regenerate the natural ecosystems in the transition between Atlantic Forest and Caatinga, to maintain viable populations of species of birds and endangered mammals, especially the slender antbird, to maintain and restore watersheds and waterways, to enable development of educational activities and environmental interpretation, recreation in contact with nature, ecological tourism and scientific research.

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