Jaú National Park
The Jaú National Park ( Portuguese Parque Nacional do Jaú ) is the second largest in Brazil with an area of 2,272,000 hectares after the Montanhas do Tumucumaque National Park . It is located on the Rio Negro in the state of Amazonas - just over 200 km northwest of Manaus in the Amazon basin. The protected area named after the Rio Jaú , a tributary of the Amazon, was founded on September 24, 1980 and declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000 . In 2003 it was expanded to a total of over 52,000 km² to form the “ Central Amazonian Nature Conservation Complex ” (Portuguese Complexo de Conservação da Amazônia Central ).
Jaguars , tapirs , manatees and crocodiles live on the temporarily flooded areas . The park can be reached from Manaus by boat.
Web links
- Situation map (PDF file)
- Entry on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website ( English and French ).
- Data sheet of the UNEP-WCMC (English)
Heritage: Historic City of Ouro Preto (1980) | Historic Center of Olinda (1982) | Jesuit Missions of the Guaraní (1983) | Historic Center of Salvador da Bahia (1985) | Shrine of Bom Jesus de Matosinhos (1985) | Brasília (1987) | Serra da Capivara National Park (1991) | Historic Center of São Luís (1997) | Historic Center of the City of Diamantina (1999) | Historic center of the city of Goiás Velho (2001) | São Francisco Square in São Cristóvão (2010) | Rio de Janeiro : Carioca landscapes between mountains and sea (2012) | Ensemble of Modernism in Pampulha (2016) | Valongo-Kai Archaeological Site (2017)
Natural heritage: Iguaçu National Park (with the Iguazú waterfalls ) (1986) | Atlantic Forest Protected Areas on the Coast of Discovery (1999) | Southeast Atlantic Forest Reserves (1999) | Central Amazon protected area (2000) with Jaú National Park (2003) | Pantanal Protected Area (2000) | Brazilian Atlantic Islands: Fernando de Noronha and Rocas Atoll Reserves (2001) | Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks (2001)
Cultural / Natural Heritage: Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodiversity (2019)
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