Nascentes do Rio Parnaíba National Park () is a

national park A national park is a nature park designated for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes because of unparalleled national natural, historic, or cultural significance. It is an area of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that is protecte ...

Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...

Location

The park is in the

cerrado The Cerrado () is a vast ecoregion of Tropics, tropical savanna in central Brazil, being present in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Maranhão, Piauí, Bahia, Minas Gerais, São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Paraná ...

biome. It covers . It was established on 16 July 2002, 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 a government agency under the administration of the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment. It is nam ...

. The park lies in parts of the municipalities of Formosa do Rio Preto in

Bahia Bahia () is one of the 26 Federative units of Brazil, states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Mina ...

, Lizarda,

Mateiros Mateiros is the easternmost city in the state of Tocantins. It is the only city in Tocantins to border the state of Piauí. The municipality is in the microregion of Jalapão. Conservation The municipality contains part of the Serra Geral do T ...

and

São Félix do Tocantins São Félix do Tocantins is a municipality in the state of Tocantins in the Northern region of Brazil. The municipality is in the microregion of Jalapão. It contains part of the Nascentes do Rio Parnaíba National Park, created in 2002. See a ...

Tocantins Tocantins () is one of the 26 states of Brazil. It is the newest state, formed in 1988 and encompassing what had formerly been the northern two-fifths of the state of Goiás. Tocantins covers and had an estimated population of 1,496,880 in 2014 ...

Alto Parnaíba Alto Parnaíba is a Brazilian municipality in the southernmost tip of the state of Maranhão. In 2020, the city's population was 11,212. The municipality contains part of the Nascentes do Rio Parnaíba National Park, created in 2002. Climate Al ...

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 ...

, and

Barreiras do Piauí Barreiras do Piauí is a municipality in the state of Piauí in the Northeast region of Brazil. The municipality contains part of the Nascentes do Rio Parnaíba National Park, created in 2002. See also *List of municipalities in Piauí This i ...

Corrente The ''courante'', ''corrente'', ''coranto'' and ''corant'' are some of the names given to a family of triple metre dances from the late Renaissance and the Baroque era. In a Baroque dance suite an Italian or French courante is typically pair ...

Gilbués Gilbués is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the states of Brazil, state of Piauí in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast region of Brazil. The municipality contains part of the Nascentes do Rio Parnaíba National Park, created in ...

and

São Gonçalo do Gurguéia São Gonçalo do Gurguéia is a municipality in the state of Piauí in the Northeast region of Brazil. The municipality contains part of the Nascentes do Rio Parnaíba National Park, created in 2002. See also *List of municipalities in Piauí ...

Piauí Piauí ( ) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the country's Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region. The state has 1.6% of the Brazilian population and produces 0.7% of the Brazilian GDP. Piauí has the shortest coastline of any coas ...

Conservation

Protected species in the park include the

jaguar The jaguar (''Panthera onca'') is a large felidae, cat species and the only extant taxon, living member of the genus ''Panthera'' that is native to the Americas. With a body length of up to and a weight of up to , it is the biggest cat spe ...

(''Panthera onca''),

cougar The cougar (''Puma concolor'') (, ''Help:Pronunciation respelling key, KOO-gər''), also called puma, mountain lion, catamount and panther is a large small cat native to the Americas. It inhabits North America, North, Central America, Cent ...

(''Puma concolor'') and

giant armadillo The giant armadillo (''Priodontes maximus''), colloquially ''tatu-canastra'', ''tatou'', ''ocarro'' or ''tatú carreta'', is the largest living species of armadillo (although their extinct relatives, the Glyptodontidae, glyptodonts, were much l ...

(''Priodontes maximus'').

Notes

Sources

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nascentes do Rio Parnaiba National Park National parks of Brazil Protected areas of Bahia Protected areas of Maranhão Protected areas of Tocantins Protected areas of Piauí Cerrado