Campos Gerais National Park ( pt, Parque Nacional dos Campos Gerais) is a

national park A national park is a nature park, natural park in use for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state dec ...

in the state of Paraná, Brazil.

Location

The Campos Gerais National Park has an area of of

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. It was created on 23 March 2006, 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 Brazilian Ministry of the Environment's administrative arm."Brazilian Federal Law 11.516/2007 (Por ...

. The park lies in the Paraná municipalities of

Ponta Grossa Ponta Grossa () is a municipality in the state of Paraná, southern Brazil. The estimated population is 355,336 according to official data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics and it is the 4th most populous city in Paraná ...

Castro Castro is a Romance language word that originally derived from Latin ''castrum'', a pre-Roman military camp or fortification (cf: Greek: ''kastron''; Proto-Celtic:''*Kassrik;'' br, kaer, *kastro). The English-language equivalent is '' chester''. ...

and

Carambeí Carambeí is a municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil. The city originated from a farm that was an obligatory stop on the Caminho do Viamão between the central-west region of Rio Grande do Sul and the state of São ...

. Vegetation includes mixed forest and areas grassland. Ball cactus and

Sinningia leucotricha ''Sinningia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Gesneriaceae. It is named after Wilhelm Sinning (1792–1874), a gardener of the Botanische Gärten der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. There are about 65 species of tuberous her ...

are endemic. The terrain is rugged, with cliffs, canyons, faults and caves. The park holds the main sources of the

Tibagi River The Tibagi River (Portuguese, ''Rio Tibagi'', also spelled ''Tibagy'' and ''Tibají'') is a river of Paraná state in southern Brazil. It is a tributary of the Paranapanema River. See also * List of rivers of Paraná * List of tributaries of th ...

and the

Ribeira de Iguape River The Ribeira de Iguape River ( pt, Rio Ribeira de Iguape), or simply the Ribeira River ( pt, Rio Ribeira), is a river of Paraná and São Paulo states in southeastern Brazil. It flows into the Atlantic Ocean near Iguape. The river is home to sever ...

Conservation

As a National Park the basic objective is the preservation of natural ecosystems of great ecological relevance and scenic beauty, enabling the conduct of scientific research and educational activities, and supporting outdoor recreation ecological tourism.

Notes

Sources

* * 2006 establishments in Brazil National parks of Brazil Protected areas of Paraná (state) Castro, Paraná Ponta Grossa Protected areas of the Atlantic Forest {{Brazil-protected-area-stub