Cairuçu Environmental Protection Area ( pt, Área de Proteção Ambiental de Cairuçu) is a protected area in the south of

Rio de Janeiro state Rio de Janeiro () is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil. It has the second largest economy of Brazil, with the largest being that of the state of São Paulo. The state, which has 8.2% of the Brazilian population, is responsible for 9.2% of ...

, Brazil. It contains an important remnant of 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 t ...

biome.

Location

Cairuçu Environmental Protection Area lies in the

Paraty Paraty (or Parati, ) is a preserved Portuguese colonial (1500–1822) and Brazilian Imperial (1822–1889) municipality with a population of about 43,000. Indeed, the name "Paraty" originates from the local Guaianá Indians' Indigenous Tupi l ...

municipality in the south of Rio de Janeiro state. It has a continental land area of plus 63 islands with a total of . It includes the villages of Guarani Araponga and Paraty-Mirim, the Quilombo do Campinho, the Juatinga Ecological Reserve and the Paraty Bay, Paraty-Mirim and Saco do Mamanguá Municipal Environmental Protection Area. It adjoins and in some areas overlaps the Serra da Bocaina National Park. It contains the Paraty-Mirim State Park, created in 1972. It is part of the Bocaina Mosaic, created in 2006.

Purpose

The environmental protection area was established on 27 December 1985 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 Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), ...

. 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 ...

V: protected landscape/seascape. The purpose is to preserve nature, scenic landscapes, fauna, flora and water systems as well as the traditional communities of '' caiçaras'', ''

quilombola A ''quilombola'' () is an Afro-Brazilian resident of ''quilombo'' settlements first established by escaped slaves in Brazil. They are the descendants of Afro-Brazilian slaves who escaped from slave plantations that existed in Brazil until abol ...

s'' and indigenous people. It tries to reconcile human activities with preservation of wildlife and other natural resources.

Environment

The region includes an important remnant of the

biome including the various transitions from coastal mangroves to humid tropical forest on the hillsides. Protected species include southern muriqui (Brachyteles arachnoides),

buffy-tufted marmoset The buffy-tufted marmoset (''Callithrix aurita''), also known as the buffy tufted-ear marmoset or white-eared marmoset, is a New World monkey that lives in the forests on the Atlantic coast of southeast Brazil. Of all the marmosets, it has the ...

(Callithrix aurita),

oncilla The oncilla (''Leopardus tigrinus''), also known as the northern tiger cat, little spotted cat, and tigrillo, is a small spotted cat ranging from Central America to central Brazil. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, and the popula ...

(Leopardus tigrinus),

green sea turtle The green sea turtle (''Chelonia mydas''), also known as the green turtle, black (sea) turtle or Pacific green turtle, is a species of large sea turtle of the family Cheloniidae. It is the only species in the genus ''Chelonia''. Its range ...

(Chelonia mydas), sea ginger coral ( Millepora alcicornis), catfish ( Trichogenes longipinnis), black-capped piprites (Piprites pileata), white-necked hawk (Leucopternis lacernulatus), brown-backed parrotlet (Touit melanonotus) and Chaco eagle (Harpyhaliaetus coronatus).

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cairucu Environmental Protection Area Environmental protection areas of Brazil Protected areas of Rio de Janeiro (state) Protected areas of the Atlantic Forest 1985 establishments in Brazil Protected areas established in 1985