The Jutaí-Solimões Ecological Station () is an
ecological station in the state of
Amazonas, Brazil. It protects an area of flooded and terra firme forest in the
Amazon biome.
Location
The Ecological Station covers in the Amazonia biome.
The station lies between the
Jutaí
Jutaí is a municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinat ...
and
Solimões rivers.
It covers parts of the municipalities of
Amaturá,
Jutaí
Jutaí is a municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinat ...
,
Santo Antônio do Içá and
Tonantins in the state of Amazonas.
It is bounded to the east by the
Rio Jutaí Extractive Reserve, on the opposite side of the Jutaí River, and to the west by the
Javari-Buriti Area of Relevant Ecological Interest.
The Betânia Indigenous Territory overlaps the western part of the ESEC and the São Domingos do Jacapari e Estação Indigenous Territory overlaps the northern part.
History
The Jutaí-Solimões Ecological Reserve by federal decree 88.541 of 21 July 1983.
Ordnance 375 of 11 October 2001 recategorized the ecological reserve as an ecological station with the present name.
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 to conserve nature and conduct scientific research.
It is administered by the
Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation.
It became part of the
Central Amazon Ecological Corridor, created in 2002.
The consultative council was created on 2 September 2011.
Environment
The Jutaí-Solimões Ecological Reserve is in the
Amazon biome.
The whole area is flat and subject to constant flooding.
Altitudes vary from .
Average annual rainfall is .
Temperatures vary from with an average of .
Vegetation types are typical of the
igapó, floodplain and land environments in Amazonia.
The
bald uakari (cacajao calvus rubicundus) is protected in the station.
The station contains what may be the world's largest palm grove, with over of
Mauritia flexuosa
''Mauritia flexuosa'', known as the moriche palm, ''ité'' palm, ''ita'', ''buriti'', ''muriti'', ''miriti'' (Brazil), ''canangucho'' (Colombia), ''morete or acho'' (Ecuador), ''palma real'' (Bolivia), or ''aguaje'' (Peru), is a Arecaceae, palm t ...
(buriti palm) trees growing in swamp conditions.
The ecosystem is threatened by overfishing and illegal deforestation.
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Protected areas of Amazonas (Brazilian state)
1983 establishments in Brazil
Ecological stations of Brazil
Protected areas established in 1983