The Caeté-Taperaçu Marine Extractive Reserve () is a coastal marine

extractive reserve An extractive reserve ( or RESEX) is a type of sustainable use protected area in Brazil. The land is publicly owned, but the people who live there have the right to traditional extractive practices, such as hunting, fishing and harvesting wild pla ...

in the state of

Pará Pará () is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian st ...

, Brazil.

Location

The Caeté-Taperaçu Marine Extractive Reserve is in the municipality of

Bragança, Pará Bragança is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil. The municipality contains part of the of the Tracuateua Marine Extractive Reserve, an extractive reserve unit created in 2005. It contains the Caeté-Tapera� ...

. It has an area of . The reserve protects the coasts and inlets of the two peninsulas on either side of the Baía do Maiaú, and extends up the Caeté River to the town of Bragança. It adjoins the

Tracuateua Marine Extractive Reserve Tracuateua Marine Extractive Reserve ( is a marine extractive reserve in the state of Pará, Brazil. It is used for small-scale farming and fishing, but the main activity is scavenging for crabs. The reserve is suffering from growing human pressure ...

to the west and the

Araí-Peroba Marine Extractive Reserve The Araí-Peroba Marine Extractive Reserve () is a coastal marine extractive reserve in the state of Pará, Brazil. Location The Araí-Peroba Marine Extractive Reserve is in the municipality of Augusto Corrêa, Pará. It has an area of . It pro ...

to the east.

Environment

The land is very flat, and almost all the reserve is subject to salt water flooding. Average temperature is . Average annual rainfall is . of the reserve consists of mangroves, while the remainder consists of estuaries, beaches, islands, dunes, saline grasslands and other coastal environments. The reserve has large tracts of well-preserved mangroves. There are many coastal, marine and shore birds and many small and medium-sized mammals and reptiles.

Economy

There are three communities within the reserve, occupying an area of about with about 700 families. About 5,000 families use the natural resources of the mangroves, including crabs, various species of sea fish, estuarine shrimp, clams, fruit and other mangrove products. The Jabuti archaeological site has ''

Terra preta ''Terra preta'' (, literally "black soil" in Portuguese language, Portuguese), also known as Amazonian dark earth or Indian black earth, is a type of very dark, fertile human impact on the environment, anthropogenic soil (anthrosol) found in the ...

'' soil from pre-historic farming, and ceramic remains with an estimated age of 2,300 years.

History

The Caeté-Taperaçu Marine Extractive Reserve was created by federal decree on 20 May 2005 to protect livelihoods and ensure the use and conservation of renewable natural resources traditionally used by the resident population. 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 a government agency under the administration of the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment. It is nam ...

(ICMBio). It is 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 ...

VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources). An extractive reserve is an area used by traditional extractive populations whose livelihood is based on extraction,

subsistence agriculture Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow crops on smallholdings to meet the needs of themselves and their families. Subsistence agriculturalists target farm output for survival and for mostly local requirements. Planting decisions occu ...

and small-scale animal raising. Its basic objectives are to protect the livelihoods and culture of these people and to ensure sustainable use of natural resources. The reserve was recognised by the

Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária The Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária - INCRA (''National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform'') is a federal government authority of the public administration of Brazil. INCRA administers the land reform issues. ...

(INCRA: National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform) on 29 November 2005 as meeting the needs of 3,000 families of small rural producers, who would qualify for

PRONAF The agricultural sector in Brazil is historically one of the principal bases of Economy of Brazil, Brazil's economy. In 2024, Brazil was the second-biggest grain exporter in the world, with 19% of the international market share, and the fourth ...

. This was adjusted to 5,000 families on 5 January 2009. The deliberative council was created on 24 September 2007. On 28 September 2011 ICMBio assigned the right of use for fifty years to the users' association of the reserve. The management plan was approved on 13 December 2013.

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