Caracaraí Ecological Station () is an ecological station in the state of

Roraima Roraima ( ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil. Located in the country's North Region, it is the northernmost and most geographically and logistically isolated state in Brazil. It is bordered by the state of Pará to the southeast, Amazonas t ...

, Brazil.

Location

The ecological station, which covers , was created on 31 May 1982. It is in the municipality of Caracaraí in the state of

. It adjoins the

Yanomami Indigenous Territory The Yanomami Indigenous Territory () is an Indigenous territory (Brazil), indigenous territory in the states of Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas and Roraima, Brazil. It overlaps with several federal or state conservation units. It is home to ...

to the west. The station is named after the municipality, whose name means "little hawk", a very common bird in the region. 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 ...

Conservation

The ecological station is a "strict nature reserve" under

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 ...

Ia. The purpose is preservation of nature and support of scientific research. The vegetation is characteristic of transition forest, with trees tall with thin trunks. There are several layers, with the higher trees losing their leaves in the dry season. The rubber tree

Hevea brasiliensis ''Hevea brasiliensis'', the Pará rubber tree, ''sharinga'' tree, seringueira, or most commonly, rubber tree or rubber plant, is a flowering plant belonging to the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, originally native to the Amazon basin, but is now p ...

is one of the upper layer trees. Protected species include white-bellied spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth).

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