The Gurupi-Piriá 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 Gurupi-Piriá Marine Extractive Reserve is in the municipality of

Viseu Viseu () is a city and municipality in the Centro Region of Portugal and the capital of the Viseu District, district of the same name, with a population of 100,105 inhabitants in the entire municipality, and center of the Viseu Dão Lafões Interm ...

on the Atlantic coast of the extreme east of Pará. It has an area of . It adjoins 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 west and the Reentrâncias Maranhenses Environmental Protection Area in the state of

Maranhão Maranhão () is a States of Brazil, state in Brazil. Located in the country's Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region, it has a population of about 7 million and an area of and it is divided into 217 municipalities. Clockwise from north, it ...

to the east. The reserve is in an area of coastal plains and rivers, with beaches, dunes and cliffs, and includes the islands of Apeú Salvador, Itacupim, Taperebateua and dos Pássaros. The maximum elevation is above sea level. The main rivers are the Gurupí along the eastern boundary, the Limondeua, Bombom and Piriá. The reserve protects both sides of the Piriá River, and the coasts and inlets of the peninsulas on both sides of the mouth of this river.

Environment

Average annual rainfall is Temperatures range from with an average of . Mangroves include ''

Avicennia germinans ''Avicennia germinans'', the black mangrove, is a shrub or small tree growing up to 12 meters (39 feet) in the acanthus family, Acanthaceae. It grows in tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, on both the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts ...

'', ''

Avicennia schaueriana ''Avicennia schaueriana'' is a species of tropical mangrove in the Family (biology), family Acanthaceae. It grows in coastal and estuarine locations along the Atlantic coast of northeastern South America, from Venezuela and the Leeward Islands th ...

'', ''

Laguncularia racemosa ''Laguncularia'' is a genus of plants in the family Combretaceae. The only species in the genus is ''Laguncularia racemosa'', the white mangrove. It is native to the coasts of western Africa from Senegal to Cameroon, the Atlantic Coast of the Am ...

'' and ''

Rhizophora mangle ''Rhizophora mangle'', also known as the red mangrove, is a salt-tolerant, small-to-medium sized evergreen tree restricted to coastal, estuarine ecosystems along the southern portions of North America, the Caribbean as well as Central America ...

''. Riparian forests along the sides of the small streams, and small grassland areas, form the transition from the mangroves to terra firma.

History

The Gurupi-Piriá Marine Extractive Reserve was created by federal decree on 20 May 2005. 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 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

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) recognised the reserve on 29 November 2005 as supporting 2,000 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 ...

support. The deliberative council was created on 1 February 2008. On 23 March 2010 ICMBio gave the users' association of the reserve the right to use it for twenty years.

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* * * {{authority control 2005 establishments in Brazil Marine extractive reserves of Brazil Protected areas of Pará Protected areas established in 2005