Jalapão State Park ( pt, Parque Estadual do Jalapão) 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 ...
The Jalapão State Park lies in the municipality of
Mateiros
Mateiros is the easternmost city in the States of Brazil, state of Tocantins. It is the only city in Tocantins to border the state of Piauí.
The municipality is in the microregion of Jalapão.
Conservation
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, Tocantins, and has an area of .
The park covers the Espírito Santo dunes and mountains.
It is relatively inaccessible, requiring a drive of about over dirt roads.
It contains flat-topped plateaus bounded by steep cliffs, constantly subject to erosion by rain and wind.
Most of the park is in the upper basin of the Do Sono River, including the
Novo
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Plot
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The park contains dry and wet grassland, ''campo sujo'', strict cerrado, sparse dune vegetation,
cerradão
Cerradão is a type of dry forest found in Brazil, associated with the cerrado savanna ecoregion.
Structure
Cerradão is a drought-resistant ("xerophitic") type of forest, with relatively sparse and slender trees.
It includes species that are fou ...
, gallery forest, riparian forest and semi-deciduous lacustrine vegetation.
Rare species include ''
Annona coriacea
''Annona coriacea'' (araticum in Portuguese) is a fruit tree native to Brazil. Its original habitat includes the ecoregions of Cerrado, Caatinga, and Pantanal. There, it is typically found in scrublands and savannahs, though it is sometimes ...
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Attalea eichleri
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* ''Attalea'' (plant), a genus of palms
**List of Attalea species
* Attalea in Lydia, an ancient city, now Yanantepe in Turkey, and bishopric, now a titular see
* Attalea in Pamphylia
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Chamaecrista oligosperma
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Xylopia aromatica
''Xylopia aromatica'' is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family and the accepted name of ''Xylopia xylopioides''.
It is a tree native to Cerrado grassland vegetation, particularly in the states of Goiás and Minas Gerais, in eastern Brazil ...
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Economically useful plants include ''
Syngonanthus nitens
''Syngonanthus nitens'' is a grass-like species of Eriocaulaceae which exists in the region of Jalapão, state of Tocantins, Brazil - the region is part of the Brazilian cerrado. Its main characteristic is the bright and gold color, hence their ...
Annona coriacea
''Annona coriacea'' (araticum in Portuguese) is a fruit tree native to Brazil. Its original habitat includes the ecoregions of Cerrado, Caatinga, and Pantanal. There, it is typically found in scrublands and savannahs, though it is sometimes ...
Brosimum gaudichaudii
''Brosimum'' is a genus of plants in the family Moraceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas.
The breadnut ('' B. alicastrum'') was used by the Maya civilization for its edible nut. The dense vividly colored scarlet wood of '' B. paraens ...
Hancornia speciosa
''Hancornia'' is a genus of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1812. It is native to South America ( Brazil, Peru, Bolivia
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Stryphnodendron adstringens
''Stryphnodendron adstringens'' ( pt, barbatimão) is a species of legume in the genus ''Stryphnodendron'' found in Brazil.
''Holcocera cerradicola'' is a moth, whose larvae feed on ''S. adstringens''.
Chemistry
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Parkia platycephala
''Parkia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. Several species are known as African locust bean.
In 1995, about 31 species were known.Melissa Luckow and H ...
'' are endemic.
The hoary fox (''Lycalopex vetulus'') is endemic.
The rare and endangered Brazilian merganser (''Mergus octosetaceus'') and Chaco eagle (''Buteogallus coronatus'') are found in the park.
Administration
The Jalapão State Park was created by state Law 1203 of 12 January 2001.
The park is part of the Jalapão ecological corridor,
The Serra Geral do Tocantins Ecological Station, one of the core areas of the Cerrado Biosphere Reserve, is also part of this corridor.
On 21 July 2009 a technical cooperative agreement was signed between the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio) and the Nature Institute of Tocantins for management and conservation of the Serra Geral do Tocantins Ecological Station and the Jalapão State Park.
The state park's advisory board was appointed on 15 December 2011.