Juruena National Park

Checkpoint on the northern border of the national park

Waterfall in Juruena National Park

Coordinates: 7 ° 52 ′ 2 "  S , 58 ° 8 ′ 35"  W

Juruena National Park​

Brazil

The Juruena National Park , officially Portuguese Parque Nacional do Juruena , located in the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso , Amazonas and Pará and is named after the River Juruena named flowing through the area later with the Teles Pires combined and then the Amazon creek Rio Tapajós forms.

General

The national park was founded as part of the ARPA (Amazon Region Protected Areas) program of the Brazilian government on June 5, 2006 and covers 19,570 square kilometers, which are mainly characterized by the almost untouched rainforest with its typically diverse flora and fauna. Since rainforests are endangered in their existence by logging, agricultural exploitation and other factors, the Juruena National Park, together with other protected areas in the region , should protect the largest contiguous rainforest on earth from complete destruction in the sense of a biotope network system .

Wildlife

The sanctuary is home to the jaguar , giant otter and harpy eagle , among many other species . Amazon dolphins have also been detected in the rivers .

Web links

• The Juruena Protected Areas and the Amazonia Meridional Mosaic. World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF)
• Juruena Apuí Protected Areas. WWF Germany (PDF file; 1.40 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Juruena Protected Areas and the Amazonia Meridional Mosaic. WWF website, March 3, 2014.
2. ↑ Juruena-Apuí Protected Areas. WWF Germany, Project Information 2011 (PDF file; 1.40 MB).