San Rafael National Park
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| Location: | Itapua , Paraguay | ||
| Surface: | 730 km² | ||
| Founding: | May 29, 1992 | ||
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The San Rafael National Park is located in the Caazapá and Itapúa departments in the Cordillera San Rafael mountain range in Paraguay . It has an area of 730 km² and is around 200 km from Asunción .
climate
The climate in the national park is subtropical with an average annual temperature between 16 and 22 ° C and annual precipitation between 1000 and 2200 mm.
flora
The national park is home to the largest contiguous piece of the remaining Atlantic rainforest in Paraguay. It also contains dense bamboo forests (Chusquea), Cedrela fissilis , Anadenanthera colubrina , Peltophorum dubium , Yvyraro (German: bitter / poisonous tree) ( Myrsine laetevirens ), the bark of which is used by the natives when fishing as an ichthyotoxic (a substance that is poisonous for fish) , as well as the Lapacho , the national tree of Paraguay.
fauna
The San Rafael National Park is famous for its bird life. It is the first "Important Bird Area" (IBA) in Paraguay and the second to be created in South America. 424 bird species are documented, which make up almost 60% of the species occurring in the country. The world's endangered species in the park include the White brewing Specht , helmeted woodpecker , bare-throated bellbird , Macuco , Schwarzmaskenguan ( Pipile jacutinga ), rooster tail Bully ( Alectrurus tricolor ), saffron toucanet ( Pteroglossus bailloni ) and the harpy eagle , which mainly feeds on monkeys and sloths .
Jaguar , lowland tapir , anteater , maned wolf , peccary , red deer and monkey can be found among the 61 species of mammals in the park . There are also 52 fish, 33 amphibians and 27 reptile species . In 2006, three reptile species, still unknown to science, were discovered in the national park.
More facts
About 150 indigenous people of the Mbya people live within the national park and hunt there for self-sufficiency.
Some of the landowners who lost their land in the creation of the national park have not yet received compensation. Therefore, despite the legal prohibition, they continue their economic activities in the park - mainly logging and marijuana cultivation. There is only one ranger from the environmental agency SEAM who oversees the national park.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Descripción y mapas de los paisajes priorizados p. 2 (PDF) py.undp.org , accessed on December 29, 2018.
- ^ The "San Rafael" primeval forest reserve procosara.org , accessed on December 26, 2018.
- ↑ El "yvyraro", un árbol ictiotóxico de los guaraníes scielo.org.ar , accessed on December 27, 2018.
- ↑ San Rafael National Park: Will it be saved? , nationalparksofparaguay.blogspot.com , August 25, 2016, accessed December 28, 2018.
- ↑ Histórico avance en la preservación de los últimos remanentes de bosques en la Región Oriental del Paraguay seam.gov.py , June 24, 2015, accessed on December 28, 2018.
- ↑ Parque Nacional San Rafael, un verdadero refugio de la ecodiversidad parquesnacionalesdelparaguay.blogspot.com , July 27, 2017, accessed on December 26, 2018.
- ↑ Paraguayan forest finally gets protection birdlife.org , July 10, 2015, accessed December 28, 2018.
- ↑ Diagnóstico del Parque Nacional San Rafael parquesnacionalesdelparaguay.blogspot.com , August 7, 2015 accessed December 26, 2018th
- ↑ Deforestan reserva San Rafael para plantar marihuana rdn.com.py , September 9, 2017, accessed December 26, 2018.