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Serra da Mocidade National Park ( pt, Parque Nacional Serra da Mocidade) is a national park in the states of Amazonas and Roraima, Brazil.


Location

The park lies in the Amazon biome. It covers . It was established on 29 April 1998, 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 covers parts of the municipalities of
Barcelos, Amazonas Barcelos, (also Barcellos), formerly Mariuá, is a municipality located in the State of Amazonas, northern Brazil. Its population was 27,638 (2020) and its area is , making it the second largest municipality in Brazil (behind Altamira, Pará), eq ...
and Caracaraí, Roraima. It adjoins the Yanomami Indigenous Territory to the north. The north west of the park has a complex of mountains isolated from other ranges of the Guianas. Altitudes range from . It contains small meandering streams covered by upland forest, wetlands, rivers with distinctive chemical and biological properties (the Catrimani River and Água Boa do Univini River) and alluvial floodplains. Some of the wetlands are strictly seasonal in nature. Average annual rainfall is . Temperatures range from with an average of .


Conservation

The park is classified 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 par ...
II (national park). It has the objectives of preserving natural ecosystems of great ecological relevance and scenic beauty, enabling scientific research, environmental education, outdoors recreation and eco-tourism. The conservation unit is supported by the Amazon Region Protected Areas Program.


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* * * * {{authority control 1998 establishments in Brazil National parks of Brazil Protected areas of Roraima Protected areas of Amazonas (Brazilian state)